TY - CONF A1 - Pulz, Robert A1 - Rehmer, Birgit T1 - Laser thermal shock experiments - performance and evaluation on the basis of advanced ceramics T2 - Advanced Engineering Ceramics and Composites N2 - The thermal shock behaviour in air and vacuum of three different advanced ceramics is investigated by introducing a new testing method. This thermal shock testing system permits the reproducible setting of defined temperature profiles in thin disks. In order to perform heating - up thermal shock experiments under reproducible conditions and to measure the transient temperature fields, a laser beam is directed spirally across the surface of the specimen. In this process, the specimen is heated up faster than the temperature gradient is compensated by thermal conductivity. Resulting temperature fields were recorded space and time resolved. Based on the knowledge of the local temperature distribution at the moment of failure, the critical fracture stress can be calculated. The scatter of thermal shock strength is quantitatively determined for the tested ceramics by using a improved statistical method. KW - Thermal shock KW - Weibull statistics KW - Environmental media PY - 2011 DO - https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/18/20/202019 SN - 1757-899X N1 - Serientitel: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering – Series title: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering IS - Symposium 14 SP - 202019, 1 EP - 4 AN - OPUS4-33028 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -