Thermal Stress Resistance of Materials [Paperback]

This brilliant treatise is based on extensive experimental and technological data derived from high-temperature materials development processes. The distinguished authors analyse results from the development of nuclear reactors and aerospace rocket engines. They apply this data to the problem of bearing capacity and the fracture of thermally loaded bodies. They establish new regularities of fracture at various modes of local and combined thermal loading.

Evolution of Theoretical Concepts of Thermal Stress Resistance.- Design Estimates of Temperature Fields and Strain Condition of Bodies.- Methods of Testing for Thermal Stress Resistance.- Mechanism of Crack Propagation in Non-Uniform Fields of Thermal Stresses.- Influence of Thermal Loading Modes on Fracture.- Effect of Structural Parameters on Thermal Stress Resistance.- ElasticPlastic Deformation Under Local Heating.- Criteria of Thermal Stress Resistance of Materials.- Ways of Increasing Thermal Stress Resistance of Ceramic Materials.

A. Lanin: Doctor of physical and mechanical science. Professor, leading Russian scientist on strength and fracture of refractory materials for high temperature gas cooled reactors and reactor space installations.

I. Fedik: Doctor of physical and mechanical science, professor, academician, leader of the scientific and engineering development of high temperature materials and fuel elements for nuclear jet engine.

This book deals with the problem of a bearing capacity and fracture of thermally loaded materials. The treatise is based on extensive experimental and technological data of materials-development processes for high-temperature nuclear reactors and aerospace nuclear-rocket engines. New regularities and irregularities of fracture at various modes of local and combined thermal loading using electron-beam, induction and ionic-beam technique of heating, and also with traditional methods of measuring the thermal stress lS!