MECH 575

Engineering Ceramics

Units: 1.5

Engineering ceramics: structure, properties and applications. Topics to be covered: historical significance of ceramics; definition of ceramics and glasses; structures of ceramics; glasses and glass ceramics; properties and applications of oxide and silicate ceramics; properties and applications of carbine, boride and nitride ceramics; ceramic processing; mechanical properties; toughening mechanisms for brittle ceramics; design concepts; ceramic capacitors; ferroelectrics; piezoelectrics and electro-optic ceramics.

Graduate course in the Mechanical Engineering program administered by the Faculty of Graduate Studies.