Mechanical Behaviour of Materials at High Temperature

I: High Temperature Metallic Alloys.- Overview on monotonic, creep and cyclic stress strain behaviour at high values of strain.- Creep behaviour of engineering alloys.- Development of intergranular damage under high temperature loading conditions.- Defect assessment procedures in the creep range.- Intergranular creep cavitation and fracture.- Elevated temperature fatigue crack growth of nickel base superalloys; A review and modelling.- Fatigue and creep-fatigue behaviour of Ni-base superalloys: Microstructural and environmental effects.- Interaction of high temperature creep with high cycle fatigue.- Creep and creep-fatigue crack growth of high strength steels.- The behaviour of short cracks at elevated temperatures.- Local approach: Numerical simulation of creep crack initiation and growth.- The effect of temperature on the growth of cracks subjected to combined major and minor stress cycles.- II: Engineering Applications of High Temperature Alloys.- Aspects of the assessment of the mechanical behaviour of metallic materials at high temperature.- The behaviour of defects in welds at high temperature.- Developments in creep-fatigue crack initiation and growth procedures in high temperature codes.- Quantitative microstructural assessment of P91 ferritic steel after long term creep at high temperature.- Aeroengine applications of advanced high temperature materials.- Stressing and lifing techniques for high temperature aeroengine components.- III: Thermal-Mechanical Fatigue and Thermal Shock.- Thermo-mechanical deformation of engineering alloys and components — Experiments and modeling.- Thermal-mechanical fatigue and thermal fatigue experiments.- Damage modelling in thermal mechanical fatigue.- Analysis of thermal shock and thermal-mechanical fatigue.- Experimentalanalysis of thermal shock.- IV: High Temperature Behaviour of Metal Matrix and Ceramic Matrix Composites.- Crack propagation in metal-matrix composites. I: Interaction of cracks with metal/ceramic interfaces.- Crack propagation in metal-matrix composites. II: Mechanisms of fatigue-crack growth.- Processing structure and high temperature creep of MMCs.- Modelling of high temperature deformation in MMCs.- Temperature and loading rate effects on toughness of in-situ niobium silicide — niobium composites.- Sialons and silicon nitrides as high temperature engineering materials; Retrospect and prospect.- Toughened silicon carbides for high-temperature use.- Indentation creep behaviour of glasses and glass-ceramics.- Mechanical properties of mullite at high temperature.- Ceramic matrix composites.- Si3N4-SiC composites prepared by SHS technique.- CMC processing routes for high temperature applications.- Design concepts for CMC structures.- CMC’s static and fatigue behaviour at high temperature.- New developments in engineering applications of materials at high temperatures.- CMC component joining.