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 500°C.- 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.
