Functional Gradient Ceramics, and Thermal Barriers

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: Given the importance of specialty ceramics in a wide range of industries, particularly in electronics, these proceedings of the June 2006 event presented by Structural Integrity of Ceramic Multilayers and Coatings (SICMAC) serve to meet the need for more engineers with a basic understanding of the field and will also serve to inspire more to specialize in this growing field. These 40 or so papers and posters are unique because they include an overview of the fundamentals as well as leading-edge research, describing the design and processing of multilayers and functionally graded materials, the structural integrity of multilayers, the processing and lifetime assessment of thermal barrier coatings and the fatigue, damping and high temperature behavior of coatings and multilayers. Specific topics include laminate processes, water-based colloidal processing, misted chemical solution deposition, quantitative analyses of processes, reports of performance and analysis of failures, and a variety of models.