A Review of: “Ceramic Matrix Composites, Walter Krenel (Ed.)”
A Review of: “Ceramic Matrix Composites, Walter Krenel (Ed.)”
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Research and development on ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) are being extensively exercised in recent times, considering CMCs as attractive alternatives to traditional industrial materials such as high alloy steels and conventional refractory materials, attributed to the reliability of CMCs in severe environments in terms of high temperature, high level of stress, and corrosive conditions. CMCs are combination of suitable reinforcing phases (i.e., metals or ceramics) with a ceramic matrix to overcome the intrinsic brittleness of monolithic ceramics. In CMCs, the primary goal is to impart toughness in brittle ceramics towards employing them in structural parts, such as gas turbines for power plants, heat treatment furnaces, rocket and jet engines, heat shields for space vehicles, fusion reactor first wall, aircraft brakes, etc. Besides, CMCs are also being synthesized towards tailoring properties such as high-temperature stability, high thermal shock resistance, high corrosion resistance, better electrical and thermal conductivity, and thermal expansion. A trend in processing industries is being perceived towards manufacturing CMCs as promising thermostructural materials, attributed to the increased energy efficiency, increased productivity, and regulatory compliance. However, the applications of CMCs are still limited by the lack of suitable reinforcements, processing difficulties, precise material data bases, lifetime, and cost. The textbook titled “Ceramic Matrix Composites,” edited byWalter Krenel and published byWiley-VCH, emphasizes on the present status of development and application of CMCs being employed in various industries. The compendium, comprising information on different types of CMCs, details of processing, mechanical properties, and applications, can serve as a reference handbook for graduate students and research scholars working in the field of ceramic composites. The monograph, containing sixteen chapters, portrays the fundamentals of CMCs, details of various reinforcing agents in different categories of CMCs, their various processing and manufacturing details, microstructural and thermomechanical characteristics, machining and joining aspects, and application of particular CMCs in various industries such as automobile, aerospace, nuclear, and friction applications. The first chapter of this book provides an overall concept of structure of various organic/inorganic and oxide/non-oxide fibers as reinforcement with various direct and indirect production methods of fibers. A specific type of fibers, the textile fiber reinforcement, has been discussed with great details of varieties of textiles, their different manufacturing processes, properties, and specific applications in the second chapter. The third chapter deals with the fundamental concepts of interfaces and interphases in CMCs, their importance, and mechanism of crack deviation in CMCs and engineering the prerequisite interfaces. The fourth chapter of this book delineates the various synthesis techniques, evolved microstructures, and resulted thermomechanical properties of a specific CMCs, the carbon/carbon composites, which were an outcome form the requirement of better mechanical property material at high temperature for US Air Force and NASA research programs. The next three chapters review the various major industrial manufacturing processes, i.e., melt infiltration, chemical vapor infiltration, polymer impregnation, and pyrolysis (PIP) process for CMCs. Processing of specific CMCs for certain applications, as well as the mechanism of load transfer resulting specific mechanical properties have been discussed in these three chapters. The eighth and ninth chapters emphasize the synthesis, properties, and applications of various oxide/oxide composites. Microstructural modeling in CMCs based on theories of load transfer and delamination at the interfaces and resulting thermomechanical properties of CMCs has been introduced in the tenth chapter. The principles and methods of various nondestructive testing techniques, such as optical, ultrasonic, thermographic, radiographic, and X-Ray tomographic analysis with particular application in the area of CMCs have been described in Chapter 11. The twelfth and thirteenth chapters deal with various machining and joining methods of CMCs, with tooling and process requirements, consequent mechanical properties, and specific applications. The last three chapters of this textbook deal with application of various novel property CMCs in the field of space and aeronautics, nuclear, and friction. The manufacturing techniques and thermomechanical properties of this specific CMCs have also been discussed in these three chapters. The contributors of this compendium are from various world famous research institutes and industries, and have composed their respective episodes with extreme erudition and immense experience in the different fields of CMCs. However, the arrangement of different chapters does not follow a smooth ordering throughout the book. For example, the fourth chapter on carbon/carbon composite appears before the description of the CMC synthetic