Ceramics Processing
Oral Qualifying Exam - Ceramics Processing
NON-EXHAUSTIVE TOPICAL AREAS IN CERAMICS PROCESSING
- Sintering (e.g., solid state sintering, densification and coarsening mechanisms, grain boundary mobility mechanisms, pore evolution (stability/entrapment), viscous densification, liquid phase sintering, constrained sintering)
- Raw Materials (e.g., conventional powders, chemically-derived powders, particle size/morphology characterization, surface area characterization, purity analysis, surface chemistry/characterization, calcination
- Processing Aids
- Spray Drying
- Milling
- Rheological Behavior (e.g., liquids, melts, dilute colloidal suspensions, concentrated colloidal suspensions, flocculated and dispersed systems)
- Forming Science (e.g., pressing operations, slip casting, tape casting, extrusion, injection molding, hot press, HIP, emerging routes (gel-based, solid freeform methods, green body characterization methods
- Drying
- Binder Removal
- Structure of Ceramic Materials (e.g., bonding, crystal structures, clay structures, glass structure, microstructure)
- Properties of Ceramics (e.g., mechanical, electrical, optical, thermal)
LEVEL (BASED ON UIUC COURSES)
- MSE 421: Ceramic Processing and Microstructure Development MSE 420: Ceramic Matls and Properties
- MSE 480: Surfaces and Colloids
SUGGESTED TEXTS
- J.S. Reed, Introduction to the Principles of Ceramic Processing, John Wiley & Sons (1988).
- G. Onoda and L.L. Hench, Ceramic Processing Before Firing, John Wiley & Sons (1978).
- R.J. Hunter, Foundations of Colloid Science, Vols. I and II, Oxford Science Publications (1995).
- D.H. Napper, Polymeric Stabilization of Colloidal Dispersions, Academic Press (1983).
- Y.M. Chiang, D. Birnie, and W.D. Kingery, Physical Ceramics, John Wiley & Sons (1997).