New way to determine Thermal Shock in ceramics
New way to determine thermal shock behavior of ceramics Published on July 29th, 2013 | Edited by: Martin Grolms digg 0 in Share Comparison of experimental results with simulated results to determine the thermal shock behavior of ceramic materials shows excellent agreement. Credit: Wiley Materials Views . (Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Wiley Materials Views on July 17.) Until the 1950s, the most important ceramic materials were pottery, bricks and tiles, cements and glass. Because of the remarkable physical and mechanical properties, ceramics are found in a broad range of applications today: as insulator, in ballistic protection, biomedical implants, coatings of jet engine turbine blades, ceramic disk brake, bearings and many more. Thermal shock behavior of ceramic materials plays a decisive role in their industrial use. Rapid heating and cooling of ceramics in industrial applications result in thermal stresses that can le
