Barsoum’s Fundamentals of Ceramics 2nd edition (PDF) provides readers with a remarkably clear and extensive intro to ceramic science. This most current 2nd Edition updates issues and includes more worked examples, along with including brand-new chapter areas on Computational Materials Science and Case Studies.

The Computational Materials Science areas explain how today density practical theory and molecular characteristics computations can shed important light on residential or commercial properties, specifically ones that are hard to determine or imagine otherwise such as surface area energies, flexible constants, point flaw energies, phonon modes, etc. The Case Studies areas focus more on applications, such as fiber optics, strong oxide fuel cells, ultra-strong and thin glasses, glass-ceramics, alumina forming products, strong and hard ceramics, fiber-strengthened ceramic matrix composites, thermal barrier finishes, the area shuttle bus tiles, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, field-assisted and microwave sintering, 2-dimensional solids, gigantic magnetoresistance, to name a few.