Silicon nitride : mechanical and thermal properties; diffusion

The volume aims to provide the reader with a broad picture of the mechanical properties (density, elastic properties, hardness and wear resistance, strength and related properties, plastic deformation, thermal stress and shock resistance, and mechanical properties of joints) of silicon nitride - one of the important modern, nonoxide ceramic materials. Intrinsic properties of high-purity materials are covered, but more widely detailed are the properties of less-pure technical types of material which contain substantial amounts of additives to aid in the fabrication of dense polycristalline bodies. The volume concludes with chapters on thermal properties (e.g., thermodynamic data of formation, thermodynamic functions, heat capacities, melting, thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity) and on self-diffusion and heterodiffusion.