Barsoum’s Fundamentals of Ceramics 2nd edition (PDF) provides readers with an extremely clear and thorough intro to ceramic science. This newest 2nd Edition updates issues and includes more worked examples, in addition to 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 difficult ceramics, fiber-enhanced ceramic matrix composites, thermal barrier coverings, the area shuttle bus tiles, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, field-assisted and microwave sintering, 2-dimensional solids, enormous magnetoresistance, to name a few.