Self-Propagating Synthesis Route to High Performance Ceramic Materials

摘要: Ceramic materials are being developed for high performance applications because of intrinsic properties that allow a higher probability survival in increasingly severe environments. However, the same provide advantages can also create disadvantages by requiring temperatures, pressures and expensive finishing steps to produce an end product. In addition, reject rate is high, reliability low due many processing variables which affect resultant finished product properties. The extreme synthesis requirements, addition number rejects, contribute manufacturing cost has prevented development, thus use, structural refractory ceramics except specialty applications.