...Tran X. Phuoc; Mehrdad Massoudi; Ping Wang; Mark L. McKoy Thermal stresses may be induced in a hot dry rock when a cold fluid is injected in the well. To study this problem, we look at the thermoelastic response of a hot rock that is suddenly cooled. The cooling is assumed to be either...

...Prashant Misra; J. Nagaraju Experimental studies are presented to show the effect of thermal stresses on thermal contact conductance (TCC) at low contact pressures. It is observed that in a closed contact assembly, contact pressure acting on the interface changes with the changing temperature...

...Y.-B. Chen; Z. M. Zhang; P. J. Timans Temperature nonuniformity is a critical problem in rapid thermal processing (RTP) of wafers because it leads to uneven diffusion of implanted dopants and introduces thermal stress. One cause of the problem is nonuniform absorption of thermal radiation...

...Mark R. Abel; Samuel Graham; Justin R. Serrano; Sean P. Kearney; Leslie M. Phinney In this work, the use of Raman Stokes peak location and linewidth broadening methods were evaluated for thermometry applications of polysilicon microheaters subjected to evolving thermal stresses. Calibrations were...

... of solidification microstructure and macroscopic as well as microscopic thermal stresses. The computer simulation is based on the metallo-thermo-mechanical theory for uncoupled temperature, solidification, phase transformation, and stress/strain fields. The importance of considering phase transformation effects...

... and the dimensions of the cold arm of the actuator unit were examined by comprehensive, coupled thermal-stress analyses. Simulation results from this study showed that the sensitivity of the actuator increases with the applied voltage as well as the width of the cold arm of the thermal actuator. An important...

... September 2003 10 03 2004 finite element analysis inverse problems thermoelasticity heat transfer thermal stresses Finite Element Heat Transfer Inverse Nonintrusive Diagnostics Stress It is often difficult or even impossible to place temperature probes, heat flux probes...

...Cinzia Buratti Thermal stress can damage fragile materials such as glass. It is a worrisome problem if the glass is a work of art, such as the polychromatic window of Arrigo Fiammingo (1565), in the Cathedral of Perugia, the topic of this paper. The window surface, irradiated by sunlight, suffers...

...Michael F. Modest; Thomas M. Mallison Lsaers are emerging as a valuable tool for shaping and cutting hard and brittle ceramics. Unfortunately, the large, concentrated heat flux rates that allow the laser to efficiently cut and shape the ceramic also result in large localized thermal stresses...