Thermal-Mechanical and Thermal Behavior of High-Temperature Structural Materials.

This report contains studies completed over the period 1179 to 123179 as part of a research program on the thermo-mechanical and thermal behavior of high-temperature structural materials, reported in the form of individual chapters as follows 1 Analysis of Effect of Heat Transfer Variables on Thermal Stress Resistance of Brittle Ceramics Measured by Quenching Experiments 2 Effect of Spatially Varying Thermal Conductivity on Magnitude of Thermal Stress in Brittle Ceramics Subjected to Convective Heating 3 Effect of Data Scatter on Apparent Thermal Stress Failure Mode of Brittle Ceramics 4 Effect of Spatially Varying Porosity on Magnitude of Thermal Stress During Steady-State Heat Flow 5 Effect of Thermal Expansion Mismatch on the Thermal Diffusivity of Glass-Ni Composites 6 Analysis of the Resistance of High-E, Low-E Brittle Composites to Failure by Thermal Shock 7 Thermal Stress Analysis of Brittle Ceramics with Density Gradients Under Conditions of Transient Convective Heat Transfer 8 Analysis of Thermal Stress Resistance of Partially Absorbing Ceramic Plate Subjected to Asymmetric Radiation I Convective Cooling at Rear Surface 9 Observations on the Nature of Micro-Cracking in Brittle Composites 10 Transient Thermal Stresses in Cylinders with Square Cross-Section Under Conditions of Convective Heat Transfer 11 Effect of Micro-Cracking on Thermal Conductivity Analysis and Experiment.