AE Application for Fracture Behavior of SiC Reinforced CFRP Composites

Casting of SiC Reinforced Metal Matrix Composites

Composites based on two aluminium alloys (A536 and 6061) reinforced with 10% or 20% volume fraction of SiC particles were produced by gravity casting and a novel two-step mixing method was applied successfully to improve the wettability and distribution of the particles. The SiC particles were observed to be located predominantly in the interdendrit ic regions, and a thermal lag model is propos...

Application of Electrophoretic Deposition for Interfacial Control of High-Performance SiC Fiber-Reinforced SiC Matrix (SiCf/SiC) Composites

This chapter reviews the novel fabrication process of continuous SiCf /SiC composites based on electrophoretic deposition (EPD). EPD process is very effective for achieving relatively homogeneous carbon coating with the thickness of several tens to hundreds nanometers on SiC fibers. Carbon interface with the thickness of at least 100 nm formed by EPD acts effectively for inducing interfacial de...

Fracture Mechanics of Fiber-Reinforced Composites

Quantitative understanding of the parameters which control composite fracture is imperative to the implementation of fail safe design and inspection of critical load bearing structures. For isotropic materials, fracture is essentially controlled by a single parameter, e.g., the fracture toughness or the stress-intensity factor. This one dimensional nature lends itself to experimental quantifica...

Mechanical Properties of SiC Fiber- Reinforced Reaction-Bonded Si3N4 Composites

Production of titanium matrix composites reinforced with SiC particles

Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Materials Science and Technology, Karlsplatz 13/308, 1040 Vienna, Austria b The Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Materials and Machine Mechanics, Račianska 75, 83102 Bratislava, Slovak Republic Branch Lab Dresden of the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing and Advanced Materials, Winterbergstrabe 28, 01277 Dresden, Germany Austrian Researc...