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Corrosion, friction and wear protection are of great importance in researchand development of new engineering materials. Ceramic materials exhibiting an extraordinary hardness are often first choice in applications of high mechanical stress.In this reference work the different application areas of these hard materials are discussed as well as the chemical and physical basics of these special material properties. The book is of high importance especially for materials scientists and engineers, solid-state chemists and physicists involved in the research and development of new ceramic hard materials and coatings.
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Ralf Riedel (Editor) Handbook of Ceramic Hard Materials @WILEY*VCH Related titles from WILEY-VCH M. Swain (Ed.) Structure and Properties of Ceramics ISBN 3-527-26824-3 R. J. Brook (Ed.) Processing of Ceramics Part I: ISBN 3-527-26830-8 Part 11: ISBN 3-527-29356-6 J. Bill, F. Wakai, F. Aldinger Precursor-Derived Ceramics ISBN 3-527-29814-2 Ralf Riedel (Editor) Handbook of Ceramic Hard Materials @WILEY-VCH Weinheim . New York . Chichester . Brisbane . Singapore . Toronto Editor: Prof. Dr. Ralf Riedel Fachgebiet Disperse Feststoffe Fachbereich Materialwissenschaft Technische Universitit Darmstadt PetersenstraRe 23 64287 Darmstadt Germany This book was carefully produced. Nevertheless, authors, editor and publisher do not warrant the information contained therein to be free of errorb. Readers are advised to keep in mind that statements, data, illustrations, procedural details or other items may inadvertently be inaccurate. Library of Congress Card No. Applied for A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Deutschc Bibliothek Cataloguing-in-Publication Data: A catalogue record for this publication is available from Die Deutschc Bibliothek IS