Bulletin  of  Materials  Science

Volume  24,  No.  2,  April  2001

CONTENTS


Cover:  Transverse fracture of composites reinforced with 23 wt% 8 h alkali treated jute fibres. For details, see p. 134.


Papers presented at the “International Conference on Fatigue and Fracture of Glasses, Ceramics and Composites”, Materials Research Society of India, Kolkata, September 1999

FOREWORD

95

Some numerical approaches of creep, thermal shock, damage and delayed failure of ceramics and refractories                                                               

Michel Boussuge

97

Effect of zirconia addition on the fatigue behaviour of fine grained alumina

D Basu and B K Sarkar

101

Indentation fatigue in silicon nitride, alumina and silicon carbide ceramics

A K Mukhopadhyay

105

Fracture resistance of 8 mol% yttria stabilized zirconia 

B F Sorensen and A N Kumar

111

Fracture toughness and reliability in high-temperature structural ceramics and composites: Prospects and challenges for the 21st Century                       


Sunil Dutta

117
Mechanical characteristics of microwave sintered silicon carbide

S Mandal, A Seal, S K Dalui, A K Dey, S Ghatak and A K Mukhopadhyay

121
Mechanical characterization of microwave sintered zinc oxide   

A K Mukhopadhyay,

M Ray Chaudhuri, A Seal, S K Dalui, M Banerjee and K K Phani

125
Effect of alkali treated jute fibres on composite properties

Dipa Ray, B K Sarkar, A K Rana and N R Bose

129
Behaviour of E-glass fibre reinforced vinylester resin composites under impact fatigue

Rita Roy, B K Sarkar and N R Bose

137
Failure analysis of multiple delaminated composite plates due to bending and impact

P K Parhi, S K Bhattacharyya and P K Sinha

143
Mechanical properties of very thin cover slip glass disk

A Seal, A K Dalui, M Banerjee, A K Mukhopadhyay and K K Phani

151
Cracking phenomena in lithium-di-silicate glass ceramics                    

Rajat Banerjee

157
Critical fatigue behaviour in brittle glasses

Rajat Banerjee and Bikas K Chakrabarti

161

Stress relaxation and estimation of activation volume in a commercial hard PZT piezoelectric ceramic                                                     


B L Cheng and M J Reece

165

Effect of stress ratio and frequency on fatigue crack growth rate of 2618 aluminium alloy silicon carbide metal matrix composite

Nirbhay Singh, Ram Khelawan and G N Mathur

169

Particle fracture and plastic deformation in vanadium pentoxide powders induced by high energy vibrational ball-mill

Partha Chatterjee, S P Sen Gupta and Suchitra Sen

173
Study of indentation induced cracks in MoSi2-reaction bonded SiC ceramics

O P Chakrabarti, P K Das and S Mondal

181
Stereological characterization of crack path transitions in ceramic matrix composites

Parag Bhargava and B R Patterson

185

Densification and mechanical properties of mullite--SiC nanocomposites synthesized through sol--gel coated precursors

K G K Warrier, G M Anil Kumar and S Ananthakumar

191
Mechanical properties of glass polymer multilayer composite

A Seal, N R Bose, S K Dalui, A K Mukhopadhyay, K K Phani and H S Maiti

197

Crack propagation studies and bond coat properties in thermal barrier coatings under bending                                                        


A K Ray, N Roy and K M Godiwalla

203

 

Composites

Macroporous silica--alumina composites with mesoporous walls     

Gautam Gundiah

211
High temperature flow behaviour of SiC reinforced lithium aluminosilicate composites

Santanu Das, V S R Murthy and G S Murty

215
Effect of filler addition on the compressive and impact properties of glass fibre reinforced epoxy        

Nikhil Gupta, Balraj Singh Brar and Eyassu Woldesenbet

219

Semiconductors

A detailed model for defect concentration and dopant activation in GaAs

Deepak and N Lakshminarayana

225

Alloys

Study of fatigue behaviour of 7475 aluminium alloy

B B Verma, J D Atkinson and M Kumar

231

Catalysts

Catalytic activity of polymer-bound Ru(III)--EDTA complex 

Mahesh K Dalal and R N Ram

237

Ferroelectric Materials

Studies on compensating valency substituted BaTi(1–x)Mnx/2Nbx/2O3 ceramics

S R Kokare, S A Pawar, N T Padal and P B Joshi

243

Crystal Growth

Thermal behaviour of strontium tartrate single crystals grown in gel

M H Rahimkutty, K Rajendra Babu, K Sreedharan Pillai, 
M R Sudarsana Kumar and C M K Nair


249

Corrosion of Materials

Analysis of corrosive environmental factors of seabed sediment

Hou Baorong, Sun Huyuan, Zhang Jinglei, Guo Gongyu and Song Jinming

253

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