Dear Colleagues,

Ceramic materials are critical in many applications involving high temperatures and extreme environments. Ceramic materials do not melt, and many compositions have excellent stability against corrosion at high temperatures in various aggressive environments. However, ceramic materials tend to fail catastrophically when stressed in tension, limiting their potential use in harsh-environment structural applications, such as turbine engines for power generation and aircraft propulsion, industrial manufacturing processes, spacecraft thermal protection systems, as well as nuclear fission and fusion power generation.

For these reasons, structural applications of ceramic materials typically employ ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), incorporating discontinuous or continuous fibers, or other ceramic or metallic reinforcements, in order to enable crack deflection and graceful failure mechanisms. Continuous fiber reinforced ceramic composite materials have been the state of the art for decades. However, traditional fabrication techniques for CMCs are expensive, slow and require significant hand operations. In recent years, integrated computational materials engineering (ICME), artificial intelligence and machine learning combined with increased supercomputing resources has resulted in development of advanced ceramic and composite compositions. In addition, the advent of many different types of advanced, additive and automated manufacturing processes has enabled fabrication of composite structures that were previously unattainable, as well as improving fabrication of traditional discontinuous and continuous fiber-reinforced composites.

The focus of this Special Issue is to capture the results of various investigations into the processing and properties of advanced CMCs. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) innovations in identifying novel compositions, reinforcing phase configurations, and advanced manufacturing techniques, as well as modeling and simulation of processing, structures and properties of advanced ceramic composite materials. Original research and review articles are welcome.

Dr. David J. Mitchell
Dr. Jayanta S. Kapat
Guest Editors

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• ceramic matrix composites
• additive manufacturing
• material processing
• extreme environment materials
• material characterization
• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• material model