Developments in strategic ceramic materials: a collection of papers presented at the 39th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, January 25-30, 2015, Daytona Beach, Florida

Content: Preface ix    Introduction xi     GEOPOLYMERS AND CHEMICALLY BONDED CERAMICS     Properties of Granite Powder Reinforced Potassium Geopolymer 3 Daniel S. Roper, Gregory P. Kutyla, and Waltraud M. Kriven     Ceramic Felt Reinforced Geopolymer Composites 11 Elias C. Koehler and Waltraud M. Kriven     Ammonia-Borane Geopolymer (AB-G) Composite 21 Lars Schomborg, Zeina Assi, J. Christian Buhl, Claus H. Ruscher, and Michael Wark     Monitoring the Structural Evolution during Geopolymer Formation by 27Al NMR 37 Ameni Gharzouni, Emmanuel Joussein, Isabel Sobrados, Jesus Sanz, Samir Baklouti, Basma Samet, and Sylvie Rossignol     Recycled Geopolymer on New Formulations 49 N. Essaidi, L. Vidal, F.Gouny, E. Joussein, and S. Rossignol     Impact of Alkaline Solution and Curing Temperature on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Alkali-Activated Blast Furnace Slag 61 Elodie Prud   homme, Jean Ambroise, and Marie Michel     Long-Term Development of Mechanical Strengths of Alkali-Activated Metakaolin, Slag, Fly Ash, and Blends 77 F. Jirasit, C. H. Ruscher, L. Lohaus, and P. Chindaprasirt     Preparation of Geopolymer-Type Mortar and    Light-Weight Concrete    from Copper Floatation Waste and Coal Combustion By Products 89 J. Temuujin, A. Minjigmaa, B. Davaabal, Ts. Zolzaya and U. Bayarzul, Ts.Jadambaa, and C. H. Ruscher     Portland Cement with Luffa Fibers 103 H. A. Colorado, S. A. Colorado, and R. Buitrago-Sierra     VIRTUAL MATERIALS (COMPUTATIONAL) DESIGN AND CERAMIC GENOME     Two-Phase Nanocrystalline/Amorphous Simulations of Anisotropic Grain Growth using Q-State Monte-Carlo 115 J. B. Allen     First Principles Calculations of Dopant Effects in Boron Suboxide 131 J. S. Dunn, A. B. Rahane, and Vijay Kumar     Composition Dependent Hardness of Covalent Solid Solutions and Its Electronic Structure Origin 143 Qing-Miao Hu, Rui Yang, Borje Johansson, and Levente Vitos     Experimental and Numerical Determination of the Elastic Moduli of Freeze Cast MMC with Different Lamellae Orientation 153 Matthias Merzkirch, Yuri Sinchuk, Kay Andre Weidenmann, and Romana Piat     Doping of CeO2 as a Tunable Buffer Layer for Coated Superconductors: A DFT Study of Mechanical and Electronic Properties 169 Danny E. P. Vanpoucke     Quantitative Analysis of (La0.8Sr0.2)0.98MnO3+- Electronic Conductivity using CALPHAD Approach 179 Shadi Darvish, Surendra K, Saxena, and Yu Zhong     ADVANCED CERAMIC COATINGS     The Effects of Ni3Al Binder Content on the Electrochemical Response of TiC-Ni3Al Cermets 193 M. B. Holmes, A. Ibrahim, G. J. Kipouros, Z. N. Farhat, and K. P. Plucknett     A Study of a NiAl Bondcoat Deposited onto CMSX-4 Superalloy for Thermal Barrier Applications 203 A. D. Chandio, X. Zhao, Y. Chen, M. Bai, and P. Xiao     Mechanical Properties of Air Plasma Sprayed Environmental Barrier Coating (EBC) Systems: Preliminary Assessments 219 Bradley T. Richards, Dongming Zhu, Louis J. Ghosn, and Haydn N. G. Wadley     Iron-Copper Nitride Thin Films Fabricated by Sputtering 239 Xingwu Wang, James P. Parry, Hrishikesh Kamat, Ruikun Pan, and Hao Zeng     MATERIALS FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS: ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE CERAMICS AND NANOLAMINATED TERNARY CARBIDES AND NITRIDES     Influence of Nitrogen Pressure on SHS Synthesis of Ti2AlN Powders 253 L. Chlubny, J. Lis, and M. M. Buko     Ultra High Temperature Ceramic Coatings for Environmental Protection of Cf/SiC Composites 261 Franziska Uhlmann, Christian Wilhelmi, Steffen Beyer, Stephan Schmidt-Wimmer, and Stefan Laure     MATERIALS DIAGNOSTICS AND STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING OF CERAMIC COMPONENTS AND SYSTEMS     Nanomonitoring of Ceramic Surface 275 V. A. Lapina, P. P. Pershukevich, T. A. Pavich, S. B. Bushuk, and J. Opitz     Semi-Automated Inspection Unit for Ceramics 283 Christian Wolf, Andreas Lehmann, and Gregor Unglaube     ADVANCED MATERIALS AND INNOVATIVE PROCESSING FOR THE INDUSTRIAL ROOT TECHNOLOGY     Modelling of Fluid Flow in Tape Casting of Thin Ceramics: Analytical Approaches and Numerical Investigations 291 Masoud Jabbari and Jesper Hattel     2ND EUROPEAN-USA ENGINEERING CERAMICS SUMMIT AND 4TH GLOBAL YOUNG INVESTIGATORS FORUM     Wettability and Reactivity of Y2O3 with Liquid Nickel and Its Alloys 309 N. Sobczak, R.M. Purgert, R. Asthana, J.J. Sobczak, M. Homa, R. Nowak, G. Bruzda, A. Siewiorek, and Z. Pirowski     Computational Materials Science: Where Theory Meets Experiments 323 Danny E. P. Vanpoucke     Author Index 335