Ceramics for transportation engines - siren or solution
This paper first reviews the challenges facing transportation engines, particularly cyclic-combustion engines (CCE), which, in numbers, bear the major burden of providing both personal and commercial transportation for mankind. While challenges are not new to CCE, it is imperative that answers be found to these challenges both for the welfare of society and for the survival of CCE. As background for understanding possible answers to these challenges and the part that new materials will play in meeting these challenges, this paper will try to summarize our new and increased understanding of the basic structure of matter. This understanding is essential to comprehending the relationship between atomic and molecular structure, microscopic structure, material processing, and the properties of the resulting materials. The paper will then try to summarize the state of knowledge concerning the use of an old but new material, ceramics, in meeting the challenges faced by cyclic-combustion engines.
- Research Organization:
- Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5577373
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A-210393/5/XAB
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Pub. in Applied Mechanics Reviews, Vol. 42, No. 3, 53-69(Mar 1989)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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