Thermal Shock - Relative Robustness of Materials

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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