Relative Robustness of Materials
The robustness of a material to thermal shock is characterized with the thermal shock parameter:
- ,
where
- is thermal conductivity,
- is maximal tension the material can resist,
- is the thermal expansion coefficient
- is the Young's modulus, and
- is the Poisson ratio.
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