Contact damage submitted to thermal shoc
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F. Osterstock
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Article
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1993
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Elsevier Science
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English
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A criterion for study of the thermal shock resistance of brittle materials is derived. It makes use of the stable extension stage of Vickers indentation cracks under the action of the thermal transient stress which appears during quenching. During this stage, the relative increase in crack length ca