Upper critical temperature is the temperature, below which cementite starts to form as a result of ejection from austenite in the hypereutectoid alloys.

Thermally activated transformation is a reaction that depends on atomic thermal fluctuations; the atoms having energies greater than an activation energy will spontaneously react or…

Thermal stress is stress created by any change in temperature to a material. These stresses can lead to fracture or plastic deformation depending on the…

Thermal shock is a variation in temperature which causes tension in a material. It frequently causes breakage in the material, and is most common in…

Thermal fatigue refers to a progressive degradation of a material due to cyclic fluctuations in temperature. Thermal fatigue primarily afflicts metals because they are highly…

The thermal expansion coefficient is defined as the fractional increase in the linear dimension of a sample of a substance with increase in temperature at…

Thermal conductivity (often denoted k, λ, or κ) refers to the intrinsic ability of a material to transfer or conduct heat. It is evaluated primarily…

Specific heat capacity is the amount of heat energy required to raise the temperature of a substance per unit of mass. The specific heat capacity…

Normalizing process is a heat treatment process for making material softer but does not produce the uniform material properties as produced with an annealing process….

Lower critical temperature The minimum body temperature that can be tolerated by an organism. Below this temperature, the biochemical properties of cell structures, especially membranes,…