Ceramic Applications In Engineering

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Ceramic applications in engineering.

A ceramic material is an inorganic non metallic often crystalline oxide nitride or carbide material. Ceramics are special materials with many applications in almost all the engineering disciplines. Products made of ceramic materials that are specially optimized for the specific application can easily comply with requirements of engineering projects. Ceramic applications aims to bridge the knowledge of ceramic manucfacuters and the design engineers in the various industrial user sectors.

3 turbocharger rotors fig. Ceramics are compounds of metals and non metals. But their importance has often been underestimated due to the fact that many people believe that ceramics are all about pottery and tiles. Engineering ceramics are those which have been specially produced to create ceramic components to provide solutions for engineering conditions with specialist requirements.

4 and tappet heads for use in automotive engines. Some elements such as carbon or silicon may be considered ceramics ceramic materials are brittle hard strong in compression and weak in shearing and tension. The special character of ceramic materials gives rise to many applications in materials engineering electrical engineering chemical engineering and mechanical engineering. The wide ranging application of technical ceramic materials in electrical engineering and electronics has led over the past decades to a correspondingly high number of variants in electrically passive and active materials.

They have ionic atomic bonding they include insulating materials glass refractories abrasives enamels. As ceramics are heat resistant they can be used for many tasks for which materials like metal and polymers are unsuitable. They withstand chemical erosion that occurs in other materials subjected to acidic or caustic environments. The thermal stability wear resistance and resistance to corrosion of ceramic components make the application of ceramic the ideal choice for many industrial uses.

Engineering ceramics are used to fabricate components for applications in many industrial sectors including ceramic substrates for electronic devices fig. Engineering ceramics such as silicon nitride silicon carbide and a large number of oxides are used in industries ranging from aerospace to automotive and biomedical to electronics.