Publisher's Synopsis
This is a proceedings volume of the Engineering Foundation Conference on Processing and Design Issues in High Temperature Materials held in Davos, Switzerland, May 19-24, 1996. The conference addressed current concerns of developers and users of high temperature materials, including superalloys, ceramics, intermetallics, and composites.;Discussion areas include: alloy design principles; microstructures and mechanical properties of potentially competitive materials such as ceramics and intermetallics, as well as their composites; environmental effects on mechanical properties; and other environmental issues such as oxidation.;Coverage also includes: universal behaviour in adhesion of some high-temperature materials; unique single-crystal superalloys for industrial gas-turbine applications; fatigue and fracture of high-temperature intermetallics; directionally-solidified, high-temperature in-situ composites.
