Books by Keyword: Crack Formation

Description: The book "Fire Performance of Materials and Structures" focuses on analysing the fire resistance of various structural materials and building structures. The edition contains selected articles published over the last two years by Trans Tech Publications Inc., covering critical issues preserving structural and functional stability in elevated temperatures and fire action conditions.

Description: This volume contains papers presented at the International Scientific Conference "Construction and Architecture: Theory and Practice for the Innovative Development" (CATPID-2020, 26-30 September 2020, Nalchik, Russia). Collected papers raise important problems in construction and architecture: from ideas and projects to ways for their implementation and optimizing of existed engineering decisions.

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This monograph deals with a physico-chemical approach to the problem of the solid-state growth of chemical compound layers and reaction-diffusion in binary heterogeneous systems formed by two solids; as well as a solid with a liquid or a gas. It is explained why the number of compound layers growing at the interface between the original phases is usually much lower than the number of chemical compounds in the phase diagram of a given binary system. For example, of the eight intermetallic compounds which exist in the aluminium-zirconium binary system, only ZrAl3 was found to grow as a separate layer at the Al–Zr interface under isothermal conditions. The physico-chemical approach predicts that, in most cases, the number of compound layers should not exceed two; with the main factor, resulting in the appearance of additional layers, being crack formation due to thermal expansion and volume effects.