DocumentCode
2598250
Title
Thermodynamics of Failure and Aging
Author
Ruderfer, Martin
Author_Institution
Dimensions, Inc., Hempstead, L.I., N.Y.
fYear
1963
fDate
25-26 Sept. 1963
Firstpage
361
Lastpage
374
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to present a general theory of aging applicable to any physical structure. No macroscopic structure lasts forever. Humans and animals die, machines deteriorate, components fail and even a rock withers away in time. Nowhere in nature do we find immortality of such structures. Why? We have no general explanation; all our present answers are specific. We state that humans and animals fail from certain biological causes; machines from mechanical causes; components from electrical and thermal causes; rocks from the slow withering of the weather. The underlying reasons why all such structures eventually fail have not been formalized.
Keywords
Aging; Animal structures; Conducting materials; Engine cylinders; Heat engines; Humans; Isothermal processes; Pistons; Reservoirs; Thermodynamics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Physics of Failure in Electronics, 1963. Second Annual Symposium on the
Conference_Location
Chicago, IL, USA
ISSN
0097-2088
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IRPS.1963.362256
Filename
4207607
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