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The physics of degradation in engineered materials and devices : fundamentals and principles / by Swingler, Jonathan, Feinberg, Alec

Table of Contents: “…Equilibrium thermodynamic damage assessment -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The system (device) and its environment -- 4.3 Thermodynamic work and the first law -- 4.4 Thermodynamic second law in terms of device entropy damage -- 4.5 Thermodynamic catastrophic and parametric failures -- 4.6 Entropy of a complex system -- 4.7 Measuring damage entropy processes -- 4.8 Measures for system-level entropy damage -- Section 2. Non-equilibrium thermodynamic damage assessment -- 4.9 Equilibrium versus non-equilibrium ageing approach -- 4.10 Application to cyclic work and cumulative damage -- 4.11 Thermodynamic damage in mechanical systems -- 4.12 Thermal activation free energy approach -- Appendix -- References --…”
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