| Issue |
EPL
Volume 87, Number 5, September 2009
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| Article Number | 54001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 3 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/87/54001 | |
| Published online | 18 September 2009 | |
A universal Biot number determining the susceptibility of ceramics to quenching
1
State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics (LNM), Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190, PRC
2
Centre for Composite Materials, Harbin Institute of Technology - Harbin 150080, PRC
3
Solid Mechanics Research Center, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics - Beijing 100191, PRC
Corresponding author: songf@lnm.imech.ac.cn
Received:
8
June
2009
Accepted:
20
August
2009
A universal Biot number of ceramics, which not only determines the susceptibility of the ceramics to quenching but also indicates the duration that the ceramics fail during thermal shock, is theoretically obtained. The present analysis shows that the thermal shock failure of the ceramics with a Biot number greater than this universal value is a very rapid process that just occurs in the initial regime of the heat conduction of the ceramics. This universal Biot number provides a guide to the selection of the ceramics applying to the thermostructural engineering including thermal shock.
PACS: 44.10.+i – Heat conduction / 81.40.Np – Fatigue, corrosion fatigue, embrittlement, cracking, fracture, and failure / 65.40.-b – Thermal properties of crystalline solids
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