One of the aims of this Monograph is to determine whether the synergistic interaction of ionizing radiation and hyperthermia and other factors are connected with the impairment of the recovery capacity per se or to the production of irreversible damages which cannot be repaired. A quantitative approach describing the recovery process was presented and firstly applied to estimate the recovery co...

In this paper, the general case of an anisotropic thermo-electro elastic body subjected to static biasing fields is considered. The biasing fields may be introduced by heat flux, body forces, external surface tractions, and electric fields. By introducing proper thermodynamic functions and employing variational principle for a thermo-electro elastic body, the nonlinear constitutive relations an...

High temperature plastic flow properties of two phase TiAl alloys containing 45 to 49 at.%Al have been investigated in thermo-mechanically grain refined materials in order to clarify the favourable microstructure and chemical composition for TiAl based superplastic materials. Grain sizes of thermomechanical treated materials and their grain size stability during subsequent high temperature defo...

The use of glass beams in transparent roofs and glass fins as part of the facade is already state-of-the-art construction to achieve a transparent and lightweight appearance. Until now, mechanical fasteners made from stainless steel are used to join these structural components. Those fasteners visually interfere, require holes in the glass and cause unfavorable stress peaks in the glass. In con...