A collection of 23 papers from The American Ceramic Society's 40th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 24-29, 2016. This issue includes papers presented in Symposium 1 - Mechanical Behavior and Performance of Ceramics and Composites.

Preface ix Introduction xi International Standards for Properties and Performance of Advanced Ceramics—30 Years of Excellence 1Michael G. Jenkins, Jonathan A. Salem, John Helfinstine, George D. Quinn, and Stephen T. Gonczy Stable Fracture Testing of Brittle Materials 13C. Baudín and A. García-Prieto Adventures and Misadventures in Applying ASTM Standard Test Method C 1421 to Measurements of the Fracture Toughness, KIC, of Glasses 29G. D. Quinn and Jeffrey J. Swab Effects of Aqueous Solutions on Slow Crack Growth of Soda Lime Silicate Glass 45Bronson D. Hausmann and Jonathan A. Salem Modified Asymmetric Four-Point Bend Test Method for In-Plane Shear Properties of Ceramic Matrix Composites at Elevated Temperatures 53Hisato Inoue, Masahiro Takanashi, Takeshi Nakamura, Takuya Aoki, and Toshio Ogasawara Development of Transthickness Tension Test Method for Ceramic Matrix Composites at Elevated Temperatures 61Hisato Inoue, Masahiro Takanashi, and Takeshi Nakamura Fatigue Behavior of SiC/SiC Ceramic Matrix Composites 71Takeshi Nakamura, Shinji Muto, and Takashi Manabe Tension-Compression Fatigue of a Nextel™720/Alumina Composite at 1200° C in Air and in Steam 79R.L. Lanser and M. B. Ruggles-Wrenn Facility for Testing SiC Fiber Tows at Elevated Temperature in Silicic Acid-Saturated Steam 95S. J. Robertson, K. B. Sprinkle, and M. B. Ruggles-Wrenn Fiber Strength of Hi-NicalonTM-S After Oxidation and Scale Crystallization in Si(OH)4 Saturated Steam 109R. S. Hay, R. Corns, A. Ross, B. Larson, and P. Kazmierski Long Term Durability Results from Ceramic Matrix Composites: Comparison Across Multiple Material Systems (Part I) 121G. Ojard, A. Calomino, B. Flandermeyer, J. Brennan, D. Jarmon, and D. Brewer Influence of Curvature on High Velocity Impact of SiC/SiC Composites 131Michael J. Presby, Rabih Mansour, Manigandan Kannan, Richard K. Smith, Gregory N. Morscher, Frank Abdi, Cody Godines, and Sung Choi Characterization of Deformation and Damage in Porous SOFC Components via Spherical Indentation and Simulation 143Zhangwei Chen, Alan Atkinson, and Nigel Brandon Micro-Scale Sand Particles within the Hot-Section of a Gas Turbine Engine 159M. J. Walock, B. D. Barnett, A. Ghoshal, M. Murugan, J. J. Swab, M. S. Pepi, D. Hopkins, G. Gazonas, C. Rowe, and K. Kerner Sintering Properties of TiB2 Synthesized from Carbon Coated Precursors 171Zhezhen Fu and Rasit Koc Microstructure and Phase Relationship of Aluminum Boride/Carbide Composites 183S. Salamone, M. Aghajanian, S. E. Horner, and J. Q. Zheng Application of FeNbC as a Hardfacing Material Using Laser Cladding—Part II 195Eduardo Tavares Galvani, Sergio Simoes, Carlos Henrique Novaes Banov, Hugo Leandro Rosa, Eduardo Cannizza, and Edmundo Burgos Cruz Pressurless Infiltration of Al2O3 Preform Containing Aligned Two-Dimensional Channels with Al-Mg-Si Alloy 207E. C. Hammel, M. S. Shohag, D. O. Olawale, O. I. Okoli, and V. A. Ravi Functional Properties of MWCNT-Alumina Composites Prepared by Novel Approach 217Ondrej Hanzel, Jaroslav Sedlá ek, and Pavol Šajgalík Strength Improvements in Clay-Based Ceramic Reinforced with Discontinuous Basalt Fiber 227Gregory P. Kutyla, Patrick F. Keane, Waltraud M. Kriven, Thomas A. Carlson, and Charles P. Marsh An Experimental Study on Fabrication, Mechanical Behavior Characterization and Micro Structural Evolution in Glass-Metal Joints 235Rakesh Joshi and Rahul Chhibber A Multiscale Analysis Tool for Predicting Flat Coupon Analysis Based Behavior of Ceramic Matrix Composite Components/Sub-Elements 245M. Bailakanavar, A. Nair, P. Woelke, N. Abboud, G. Ojard, and G. Jefferson Simulation and Experimental Validation of the Deformation and Stress Evolution During Cosintering of Ceramic Laminated Composites 263S. E. van Kempen, N. A. Giang, U. A. Özden, A. Bezold, C. Broeckmann, R. Hammerbacher, A. Roosen, and F. Lange Author Index 271