Download or read book High Temperature Fracture Mechanisms and Mechanics (EGF Publication 6) written by P. Bensussan and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1990 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for higher service temperatures and stresses in nuclear reactors and jet engines, for example, has produced a large number of studies on the behaviour and the rupture of materials at high temperatures in the last two decades.