Processing/structure/properties glass-ceramics

FigyibV 1-12 Processing/structure/properties/performance topic timelines for (a) steels, (b) glass-ceramics, (c) polymer fibers, and (d) silicon semiconductors. 

Processing/Structure/Properties/Performance correlations and summary concept maps for four materials (steels, glass-ceramics, polymer fibers, and silicon semiconductors), which integrate important concepts from chapter to chapter... 

In this chapter we provide a description of the processing, structure, and properties of high temperature ceramic fibers, excluding glass and carbon, which are dealt with in separate chapters because of their greater commercial importance. Before we do that, however, we review briefly some fundamental characteristics of ceramics (crystalline and noncrystalline). Once again, readers already familiar with this basic information may choose to go directly to Section 6.5. 

J.F. Shackelford and R.H. Doremus (eds.), Ceramic and Glass Materials Structure, Properties and Processing. 

Ceramic-type products such as supercalcine and glass ceramics have been subject to a crystallization process and are therefore thermodynamically more stable. Consequently, as long-term structural changes are less likely with those solidification products, they may maintain their original properties at a higher temperature than glasses. 

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