A thermoelastic model consisting of an infinite slab-type rectangle symmetrically heated on two faces with a constant heat transfer coefficient is used to interpret radiationheating thermal shock experimental results. The solution of the maximum principal tensile stress of the model is presented in dimensionless form, and a graphical method of inverting the stress solution is described and used to construct the loci of fracture initiation curves that highlight the transient aspect of the thermal stress fracture problem. A solution for the total strain energy is also presented and a method for computing the elastic strain energy at fracture is described. Previously reported thermal shock data are interpreted in terms of a thermoelastic damage-resistance parameter that accounts for the combined effects of material properties, geometry and thermal loading.
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F.J. Bradley (1988) studied this question.