Deformation of Covalent Crystals. - Electronic Effects on Plasticity of Covalently Bonded Materials. - Dislocation Dynamics in Silicon under High Stress. - Kink Mobility and Dislocation Velocity in Covalent Crystals. - Plastic Deformation of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Silicon Below 500C. - Plastic Deformation of Transition Metal Carbides. - Dislocation Structures in Polycrystalline Tungsten Hemicarbide W2C Deformed at High Temperatures. - Plasticity of WC Materials by T. E. M. Investigations. - The Occurrence and Behavior of Dislocations during Plastic Deformation of Selected Transition Metal and Silicon Carbides. - Structure of Dislocations in Oxides. - Deformation of Oxide Crystals. - The Effects of Nonstoichiometry on the Deformation of Oxides. - High Temperature Deformation Mechanisms in MgO. n Al2O3 Spinels. - Slip Systems in Manganese Zinc Ferrite Crystals. - Plastic Deformation of Oxides with Garnet Structure. - Deformation and Diffusion in Sapphire (?-Al2O3). - T. E. M. Observations of Dislocations in Al2O3 after Prism Plane Slip at Low Temperature under Hydrostatic Pressure. - Processes Controlling the Dislocation Mobility in MgO Single Crystals Containing Aliovalent Cationic Impurities. - Deformation Twinning in Ceramics. - Deformation of Silicate Minerals. - High Temperature Creep of Silicate Olivines. - Influence of pO2 and pH2O on the High Temperature Plasticity of Olivine. - A TEM Microstructural Study of Experimentally Deformed Anita Bay Dunite. - Distribution of Strain in Some Geological Materials Experimentally Deformed at High Pressure and Temperature. - Plastic Deformation of Al2SiO5 Polymorphs Influence of Strain on their Polymorphic Transformations. - Creep of Polycrystalline Ceramics. - Creep of Doped Polycrystalline Magnesium and Aluminum Oxides. - Superplastic Flow in CeramicsEnhanced by a Liquid Phase. - Creep Phenomena in Reaction Bonded and Sintered Silicon Nitrides. - High Temperature Creep of Dense Fine Grained Silicon Carbides. - Plastic Deformation of Mg-Doped Fine-Grained Aluminum Oxide. - Deformation Structures in Polycrystalline CaO. - Plastic Deformation and Hardening of Polycrystalline Halides. - Deformation Processing of Cesium Iodide Crystals. - High Temperature Creep of Pure Tungsten Carbide and WC-Co Alloys with Low Cobalt Volumic Ratios. - Plastic Flow of Plasma Sprayed Ceramics. - Creep Crack Growth and Failure in Ceramics. - High Temperature Failure Mechanisms in Ceramic Polycrystals. - Models for Creep Crack Growth. - Effects of Cracks on Mechanisms and Kinetics of Creep Deformation of Brittle Ceramics. - The Kinetics of Time Dependent Plastic Flow and Fracture in Ceramic Materials. - Characterization of Cracks Subject to Creep. - Regimes of Creep and Slow Crack Growth in High-Temperature Rupture of Hot-Pressed Silicon Nitride. - Creep Cavitation and Crack Growth in Silicon Nitride. - High-Temperature Creep and Fracture of ??Si3N4 Ceramic Alloys. - Creep and Creep Rupture of HP-SiC Containing an Amorphous Integranular Phase. - Crack Growth in Al2O3 with 3 wt% Glassy Phase. - Crack Resistance of Predeformed NaCl Single Crystals. - The Elastic-Plastic Crack Propagation in Ceramic Materials: Theory and Test. - Near Surface Phenomena. - Changing the Surface Plasticity and Hardness of Sapphire by Ion-Implantation. - Deformation-Induced Crack Initiation by Indentation of Silicate Materials. - Induced Plastic Deformation of Zirconia. - An Elastic Failure Model of Indentation Damage. - Plastic Deformation During the Abrasive Wear of Ceramics. - Compaction of Powders. II Thoria. - Contributors. Language: English