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 -- Elastic-Plastic Deformation Under Local Heating -- Criteria of Thermal Stress Resistance of Materials -- Ways of Increasing Thermal Stress Resistance of Ceramic Materials
Summary
"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 resistance are discussed. New criteria for the estimation of the bearing capacity of bodies in inhomogeneous fields of thermal and residual stresses are developed on the basis of fracture mechanics. Possible technological methods for the improvement of thermal stress resistance are also presented."--Jacket
