Thermal barrier coating systems are usually build-up with bond coats to ensure a good adhesion of the ceramic top coat and to protect the substrate against oxidation and corrosion. Such system is often subjected to complex ...

A model of coalescence by internal necking of primary voids is developed which accounts for the presence of a second population of cavities. The derivation is based on a limit-analysis of a cylindrical cell containing a ...

Physical responses tend to lie within restricted subspaces even for parametric problems. For a given subspace, the choice of a basis defines Degree Of Freedom (DOF) and this choice may give interesting meaning to the ...

Under elastic shock compression silica glass exhibits a very specific behaviour. A shock propagating inside a material is usually seen as the propagation of a discontinuity. However in silica glass, shocks are unstable and ...