Thermal-Mechanical and Thermal Behavior of High-Temperature Structural Materials.
Abstract
Technical ceramics because of their chemical inertness, high melting point, good wear resistance, excellent mechanical stability at high temperature and other unique properties, represent a class of materials eminently suited for many critical engineering applications. Unfortunately, because of their brittleness and unfavorable combination of pertinent material properties, technical ceramics generally are highly susceptible to catastrophic failure in non-uniform thermal environments, which give rise to thermal stresses of high magnitude. Thermal stress failure analysis of structural materials represents a multi-disciplinary problem which involves the principles of heat transfer, mechanics and materials engineering. Over the last few decades much general understanding of the nature of thermal stress failure of brittle materials has been generated. However, due to the multi-disciplinary nature of the problem, the ability to predict thermal stress failure quantitatively for design or other purposes has lagged behind the progress made in other engineering fields. The objective of the present program is to improve the qualitative and quantitative understanding of the nature of thermal stress failure of brittle structural materials.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 31, 1978
- Accession Number
- ADA065831
Entities
People
- D. P. H. Hasselman
- E. K. Beauchamp
- K. Chyung
- L. Bentsen
- M. P. Kamat
Organizations
- Virginia Tech