Eighteen international specialists with widespread expertise in the field contribute 17 chapters on a broad range of technical aspects of refractories. Coverage includes the fundamentals of the properties, fracture, and corrosion of refractories; the types of refractory brick—alumina-silica, magnesite, silica, dolomite, and spinel- containing brick; various aspects of castables and significant factors of castable lining design; thermomechanical aspects of refractory linings; lining systems in the petrochemical and steel industries; tests to determine thermal and mechanical material properties, spalling resistance, and other inferential properties; and basic aspects of refractory installation. For refractories manufacturers, material engineers, and lining designers, and industrial users of refractories.