High Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composites

A survey of the current state of MMCs as engineering and functional materials, making this of utmost value to all materials scientists and engineers seeking in-depth background information on the potentials for these materials in research, development and design engineering.

The extreme high temperature stability and damage tolerance of materials and components required for space, terrestrial, energetic and many other applications can only be achieved by ceramic materials. All over the world research is going on to develop ceramics with quasiductile behaviour. The materials with the highest potential for high temperature applications are fibre reinforced ceramic matrix composites (CMC).
The international conference HT-CMC 4 in Munich will continue the tradition of its successful predecessor meetings held in Bordeaux (France, 1993), Santa Barbara (USA, 1995) and Osaka (Japan, 1998). This conference series has been recognized as the central meeting event in high temperature CMC science and technology and demonstrates the great interest in research and development on reinforced ceramics.
The Proceedings of this conference will therefore be a valuable reference for every materials scientist or engineer involved in this field of high-tech materials development.

The international conference HT-CMC 4 in Munich continues a series of meetings for high temperature CMC science and technology and demonstrates the interest in research and development on reinforced ceramics. This book is the proceedings from the conference. During the last decade, oxide fiber-reinforced oxide composites have been the subject of increasing interest.