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121	Mechanical property - fracture behaviour - microstructure relationships in particulate reinforced MgO#centre dot#SiOâ†2 based glass-ceramic matrix composites Budd, Michael Ian January 1994 (has links) No description available. 666
122	Microstructure and micromechanics in glass and glass-ceramics reinforced with ceramic fibres Bleay, S. M. January 1991 (has links) No description available. 666
123	Characterisation of the interfaces between leadless glazes and a bone china body Kara, Alpagut January 1999 (has links) No description available. 666
124	The modelling of polycrystalline graphite fracture and deformation properties McLachlan, Neil January 1992 (has links) No description available. 666
125	Aspects of the processing and properties of nickel particle toughened alumina Sun, Xudong January 1993 (has links) No description available. 666
126	The appraisal of structural glass assemblies Overend, Mauro January 2002 (has links) No description available. 624
127	Relationships between engineering properties and microstructural characteristics of hardened cement paste containing pulverised-fuel ash as a partial cement replacement Marsh, B. K. January 1984 (has links) No description available. 666
128	Isostatic bonding of pressed ceramic materials Hassani, Seyed Khosrow Seyed January 1990 (has links) No description available. 666
129	Characterisation and thick film metallisation of aluminium nitride substrates Norton, Murray Grant January 1989 (has links) No description available. 666
130	The adhesion of photocured polymers to ceramic substrates Taylor, Alison M. January 1994 (has links) The adhesion and subsequent failure of a commercially available photocured resin applied to various ceramic substrates, used for electronics applications, has been investigated. The adhesive system was studied under both ambient and hostile, (water immersion at 50°C) conditions. The environmental stability of the system was investigated using two different mechanical tests, (simple butt-joints and a modified Boeing wedge test). In each case, the precise locus of failure was determined by a combination of surface analytical (XPS and ToF-SIMS) and microscopy techniques, (SEM). On the basis of these results, adhesion and failure mechanisms are proposed for the system. The presence of defects within the adhesive was found to initiate failure under ambient, (dry) conditions. Prolonged immersion in water, (for at least 2 weeks), was found to result in near-interfacial failure with a thin, (of the order of nanometres), overlayer of polymer remaining on the surface of the adherend. Subtle differences between this polymer overlayer and the bulk resin were observed. A model is proposed in which one of the minor resin components aggregates at the inorganic surface, creating a localised region which is extremely hydrophillic in nature. This makes the system particularly vulnerable to attack by water. In order to test this model, a reformulated batch of resin underwent the same environmental tests. The modified resin displayed a modest improvement in its ability to withstand hostile conditions, (prolonged immersion in water at 50°C) and the polymer residue remaining on the inorganic substrate was identical to that of the bulk polymer. This project has provided a unique opportunity to study the adhesion of a specific class of adhesives to bulk ceramic oxides, rather than to oxides of metals. One of the major benefits of which, was therefore the absence of any effects due to corrosion of the substrate. The project was also unusual in that it effectively went "full-circle", with the resin undergoing reformulation on the basis of the results obtained from the standard resin. The reformulated product was found to have superior wet adhesion, but poor mechanical properties. 666

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