Deformation of Ceramic Materials

I. Fundamentals of the Plastic Deformation of Ceramics.- Deformation Mechanism Maps - A Review with Applications.- Slip and Twinning Systems in Ceramic Crystals.- Review of Diffusional Creep of Al2O3.- Grain Boundary Deformation Processes.- Thermally Activated Dislocation Motion in Ceramic Materials.- II. Single Crystal Deformation.- Rhombohedral Twinning in Aluminum Oxide.- Pyramidal Slip on $${ 11bar 23} $$ and Basal Twinning in Al2O3.- Strengthening Mechanisms in Sapphire.- Dynamics of Flow of C-axis Sapphire.- Drag Mechanisms Controlling Dynamic Dislocation Behavior in MgO Single Crystals.- Solution Strengthening of MgO Crystals.- Coherent Precipitate Strengthening in MgO.- Slip Systems in Stoichiometric Magnesium-Aluminate Spinel.- III. Deformation of Polycrystalline Ceramics.- Impurity and Grain Size Effects on the Creep of Polycrystalline Magnesia and Alumina.- Creep of Low-Density Yttria/Rare Earth-Stabilized Zirconia.- Relationship Between Primary and Steady-State Creep of UO2 at Elevated Temperature and Under Neutron Irradiation.- High Temperature Plasticity of Oxide Nuclear Fuels.- Deformation of Oxide Refractories.- Non-Elastic Deformation of Polycrystals With a Liquid Boundary Phase.- Analysis of the Time-Dependent Flexural Test.- Preliminary Creep Studies of Hot Pressed Silicon Nitride.- Deformation Twinning in Polycrystalline Perovskites.- Transformation Plasticity and Hot-Pressing.- Transformational Superplasticity in Pure Bi2O3 and the Bi2O3-Sm2O3 Eutectoid System.- Transformation Induced Deformation of Cordierite Glass-Ceramics.- The Varied Role of Plasticity in the Fracture of Inductile Ceramics.- IV. Deformation Processing.- Deformation Texture and Magnetic Properties of the Magnetoplumbite Ferrites.- Hot Working Alkali Halides for Laser Window Applications.- Press Forging Behavior of KC1 Crystals and Resultant Strengthening.- Press Forging of Single Crystal Calcium Fluoride.- Grain Boundaries and Grain Boundary Mobility in Hot-Forged Alkali Halides.- Contributors.