Thermal Shock and Thermal Fatigue Behavior of Advanced Ceramics

Thermal Shock Behavior of Ceramic Materials — Modelling and Measurement.- Thermal Stresses in Materials with Temperature Dependent Properties.- Thermal Shock Testing and the Problem of Standardisation.- Factors Influencing the Thermal Shock Behavior of Ceramics.- The Potential of Si3N4 for Thermal Shock Applications.- Change of Fracture Toughness and Strength Caused by Thermal Shock for Si3N4 with Microcrack.- Interrelation Between Flaw Resistance, R-Curve Behavior, Thermal Shock Strength Degradation, and Stress-Strain Behavior of Ceramics.- Thermal Shock and Cyclic Loading of Ceramic Parts in Stationary Gas Turbines.- Fracture Mechanics Treatment of Thermal Shock and the Effect of Bridging Stresses.- Application of Weight Function Method for Crack Analysis in Thermal Stress Fields.- Multiple Crack Propagation under Thermal Load.- Crack Patterns: Generalized Laplacian Structures.- Summary: III.1. Fracture-Mechanical Modelling of Thermal Shock.- Theoretical Approach of Optimum Design for a Plate of Functionally Gradient Materials under Thermal Loading.- Thermal Shock of Cracked Composite Materials with Temperature Dependent Properties.- Thermally Induced Micromechanical Stresses in Ceramic/Ceramic Composites.- The Design of the Interface Phase for Obtaining Thermal Shock Resistance in Silicon Nitride.- Summary: III.2. Tailoring of Materials.- In -situ Observations of Unstable and Stable Crack Propagation and R-Curve Behavior in Thermally Loaded Disks.- Thermal Shock Fracture by Laser Irradiation.- Evaluations of the Thermal Shock Resistances and Fracture Toughnesses of Graphite and C/C-Composites by Arc Discharge Heating.- Significance of Non-Linear Stress-Strain and R-Curve Behavior on Thermal Shock of Ceramics.- The Significance of Non-Elastic Deformation in theThermal Shock Fracture of Heterogeneous Ceramic Materials.- Influence of Heating Rate on the Thermal Strain Induced Fracture of Mg-PSZ Samples *.- Thermal Shock by Water Quench: Numerical Simulation.- Thermal Shock Resistance and Fracture of Ceramic Materials.- Thermal Fatigue Behavior of Actively Cooled Divertor Mock-Ups with Fiber Composites as Plasma Interactive Material.- Performance of Ceramics and Fiber Composites under Severe Thermal Shocks Applied by Energetic Electron Beams or Accelerated Plasmas.- Thermal Damage by Erosion and Cracking under Pulsed Irradiation.- Summary: IV.1. Thermal Shock.- Thermal Shock and Fatigue of Mullite and Alumina: Refined Analyses.- Thermal Fatigue of Glass.- Cyclic Thermal Shock in SiC Whisker Reinforced Alumina and in Other Ceramic Systems.- Thermal Fatigue and Subcritical Crack Growth in Ceramics.- Thermal Fatigue of Engineering Ceramics *.- Acoustic Emission Amplitude Analysis in Crack Growth Studies During Thermal Shock of Ceramics.- Summary: IV.2. Thermal Fatigue.- Statistical Aspects of the Thermal Shock Damage and the Quench Strengthening of Ceramics.- Thermal Shock Behavior of Ceramics: Probabilistic Predictions of Failure and Damage.- Thermal Proof Test of Ceramics.- Hot-Gas Method and Apparatus for Thermal Shock Testing.- Summary: IV.3. Probabilistic Characterization of Thermal Shock.- Improvement of Ductility of Ceramic Rich Region in Functionally Gradient Materials by Metal Fiber Premixing.- Thermal Shock Fracture Mechanism of Metal/Ceramic Functionally Gradient Materials.- Multifunctional Ceramics for Thermal Shock Applications.- Transient Thermal Fracture of Ceramic-to-Metal Interfaces.- Laser and Plasma-Arc Thermal Shock/Fatigue Fracture Evaluation Procedure for Functionally Gradient Materials.- Development of a Thermal Shock Evaluation Device for Functionally Gradient Materials for Aerospace Applications.- Thermal Fatigue Characteristics of Functionally Gradient Materials for Aerospace Applications.- Author Index.