Ceramic materials problem definition

Ceramics and Ceramic Materials. Non-metallic inorganic or carbon solids, artificially produced or shaped by a high-temperature process, and inorganic composites wholly or essentially comprising such materials. Ceramics are usually taken to be shaped articles. (For a discussion of the problems in defining ceramics, and for official and quasiofficial definitions in various contexts, see appendix a). 

In 1985, K.H. Schuller and H.W. Hennicke published a classification that combined the craft-oriented material names derived from traditional ceramics with those of modem ceramics on the basis of synthetic raw materials, with rational chemical and mineralogical names [8]. This was necessary because global economic development called for clear terms to resolve translation and definition problems, but also for correct standard descriptions. They established the main groups ... 

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