Effect of on-axis tensile loading on shear properties of an orthogonal 3D woven SiC/SiC composite |
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Authors: | Toshio Ogasawara Takashi Ishikawa Tomohiro Yokozeki Takuya Shiraishi Naoyuki Watanabe |
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Affiliation: | aAdvanced Composite Evaluation Technology Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Mitaka, Tokyo 181-0015, Japan;bAerospace Systems Department, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hino, Tokyo 191-0065, Japan |
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Abstract: | The present study examines in-plane and out-of-plane shear properties of an orthogonal 3D woven SiC fiber/SiC matrix composite. A composite beam with rectangular cross-section was subjected to a small torsional moment, and the torsional rigidities were measured using an optical lever. Based on the Lekhnitskii’s equation (Saint–Venant torsion theory) for a orthotropic material, the in-plane and out-of-plane shear moduli were simultaneously calculated. The estimated in-plane shear modulus agreed with the modulus measured from ±45° off-axis tensile testing. The effect of on-axis (0°/90°) tensile stress on the shear stiffness properties was also investigated by the repeated torsional tests after step-wise tensile loading. Both in-plane and out-of-plane shear moduli decreased by about 50% with increasing the on-axis tensile stress, and it is mainly due to the transverse crack propagation in 90° fiber bundles and matrix cracking in 0° fiber bundles. It was demonstrated that the torsional test is an effective method to estimate out-of-plane shear modulus of ceramic matrix composites, because a thick specimen is not required. |
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Keywords: | Ceramic matrix composites Matrix cracking Transverse cracking Finite element analysis |
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