Advanced Materials and Sustainable Development

Ceramics and Composite Materials

Ceramics are the solid comprising metals which are primarily held in covalent and ionic bond. Ceramics are inorganic compounds constitutes of either non-metal or metalloids atoms. These are strong in compression, weak in shearing and stress. The material which is made up of two or more substances which are having their own respective individual chemical and physical properties  together to form a different compound with different properties to the parent compounds are called composite materials. Ceramic composite materials or ceramic matrix materials are ceramic fibers rooted in a ceramic matrix, thus forming a ceramic fiber reinforced ceramic fibers.