Developments in Strategic Materials and Computational Design II

This book is a collection of papers from The American Ceramic Society′s 35th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 23–28, 2011. This issue includes papers presented in the Thermal Management Materials and Technologies, Advanced Sensor Technology, Geopolymers, and Computational Design, Modeling, and Simulation of Ceramics and Composites symposia.

Preface ix Introduction xi GEOPOLYMERS AND OTHER INORGANIC POLYMERS Effect of External and Internal Calcium in Fly Ash on Geopolymer Formation 3 Kiatsuda Somna and Walairat Bumrongjaroen Synthesis and Thermal Properties of Fly–Ash Based Geopolymer Pastes and Mortars 17 Ch. Panagiotopoulou, A. Asprogerakas, G. Kakali, and S. Tsivilis Mechanical Response of Discontinuous Filament PVA Fiber Reinforced Geopolymers 29 Benjamin Varela and Jeffrey W. Rogers Microwave Enhanced Drying and Firing of Geopolymers 35 Tyler A Gubb, Inessa Baranova, Shawn M. Allan, Morgana L. Fall, Holly S. Shulman, and Waltraud M. Kriven Geopolymerization of Red Mud and Rice Husk Ash and Potentials of the Resulting Geopolymeric Products for Civil Infrastructure Applications 45 Jian He and Guoping Zhang The Effect of Addition of Pozzolanic Tuff on Geopolymers 53 Hani Khoury, Islam Al Dabsheh, Faten Slaty, Yousef Abu Salha, Hubert Rahier, Muayad Esaifan, and Jan Wastiels Bottom Ash–Based Geopolymer Materials: Mechanical and Environmental Properties 71 R. Onori, J. Will, A. Hoppe, A. Polettini, R. Pomi, and A. R. Boccaccini Production of Geopolymers from Untreated Kaolinite 83 H. Rahier, M. Esaifan, I. Aldabsheh, F. Slatyi, H. Khoury, and J. Wastiels Phosphate Geopolymers 91 Arun S. Wagh THERMAL MANAGEMENT MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES 3–Dimensional Modeling of Graphitic Foam Heat Sink 107 Adrian Bradu and Khairul Alam Enhancement of Heat Capacity of Molten Salt Eutectics using Inorganic Nanoparticles for Solar Thermal Energy Applications 119 Donghyun Shin and Debjyoti Banerjee Enhancement of Heat Capacity of Nitrate Salts using Mica Nanoparticles 127 Seunghwan Jung and Debjyoti Banerjee Enhanced Viscosity of Aqueous Silica Nanofluids 139 Byeongnam Jo and Debjyoti Banerjee Pumping Power of 50/50 Mixtures of Ethylene Glycol/Water Containing SiC Nanoparticles 147 Jules L. Routbort, Dileep Singh, Elena V. Timofeeva, Wenhua Yu, David M. France, and Roger K. Smith COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN Characterization of Non Uniform Veneer Layer Thickness Distribution on Curved Substrate Zirconia Ceramics using X–Ray Micro–Tomography 155 M. Allahkarami, H. A. Bale, and J. C. Hanan Computational Study of Wave Propagation in Second–Order Nonlinear Piezoelectric Media 165 David A. Hopkins and George A. Gazonas Impact of Material and Architecture Model Parameters on the Failure of Woven CMCS via the Multiscale Generalized Method of Cells 175 Kuang Liu, Aditi Chattopadhyay, and Steven M. Arnold Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation of Oxygen and Cation Diffusion in Yttria–Stabilized Zirconia 193 Brian Good ADVANCED SENSOR TECHNOLOGY Nano–Calorimeter Platform for Explosive Sensing 209 Seok–Won Kang, Nicholas Niedbalski, Mathew R Lane, and Debjyoti Banerjee Polyaniline–Silica Nanocomposite: Application in Electrocatalysis of Acetylthiocholine 221 Prem C. Pandey, Vandana Singh, and S. Kumari Electrochemical Sensing of Dopamine over Polyindole–Composite Electrode 235 Prem C. Pandey, Dheeraj S. Chauhan, and S. Kumari Author Index 245