A ceramic material is an inorganic non metallic often crystalline oxide nitride or carbide material.
Ceramics in other applications.
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But it is just this bonding nature of ceramics that directly results in their inherent brittleness and difficulty in machining.
The application of ceramics has infiltrated almost all fields in the last 20 years because of their advantages over metals due to their strong ionic or covalent bonding.
Other applications of ceramics in the aerospace industry include brakes bearings seals and other wear resistant components.
Ceramic composition and properties atomic and molecular nature of ceramic materials and their resulting characteristics and performance in industrial applications.
Electronic thermal management structures.
However many compounds which are classified as ceramics today contain no clay.
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Lightweight optical components e g silicon carbide mirrors.
Other examples of where advanced ceramics are used include oil free bearings in food processing equipment.
The applied pressure contributes to the sintering driving force see eq.
They generally have ionic atomic bonding between them.
Industrial ceramics are commonly understood to be all industrially used materials that are inorganic nonmetallic solids.
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The word ceramics is derived from the greek word keramos which means potter s clay.
Some elements such as carbon or silicon may be considered ceramics ceramic materials are brittle hard strong in compression and weak in shearing and tension.
Engineering ceramics are used to fabricate components for applications in many industrial sectors including ceramic substrates for electronic devices fig.
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Radiators i e cooling systems for space vehicles.
For some high tech ceramic applications like transparent ceramics bioceramics structural ceramics etc it is advantageous to use pressure assisted sintering.
There are a number of other applications that are found in the other areas too.
Magnetic ceramics are another type of advanced ceramic material that is used for the production of antennas and inductors.
Other types of electroceramics consist primarily of ferrite based permanent magnets and circuit devices for high reliability applications e g low and high temperature co fired ceramics and ceramic electronic substrates.
Modern ceramics can be defined as the compounds of metals and non metals.
Today the outer most border of human progress is where we perfectly control and use the highest temperatures.
Usually they are metal oxides that is compounds of metallic elements and oxygen but many ceramics.
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