Elastic Properties of Laminated Calcium Aluminosilicate/Silicon Carbide Composites Determined by Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy |
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| Authors: | Yongmei Liu Yi He Fuming Chu Terence E Mitchell Haydn N G Wadley |
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| Affiliation: | Center for Materials Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545;Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 |
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| Abstract: | The elastic properties of unidirectional and 0°/90° crossply Nicalon-SiC-fiber-reinforced calcium aluminosilicate (CAS/SiC) ceramic-matrix composites have been measured using a resonant ultrasound spectroscopy (RUS) technique. This approach has allowed the nondestructive determination of the complete set of independent second-order elastic stiffness constants of these ceramic composites. These stiffness data have been used to obtain the orientation dependence of Young's modulus and the shear modulus. The results are in reasonably good agreement with the limited experimental data obtained from mechanical testing. The RUS measurements reveal that the unidirectional CAS/SiC composite is well modeled by transverse isotropic symmetry, indicating relatively isotropic fiber spacing in the transverse plane. The analysis indicates that the overall elastic anisotropy is also small for unidirectional and 0°/90° laminated CAS ceramic-matrix composites, a result that can be attributed to the relatively low modulus ratio of the Nicalon SiC fiber to the CAS matrix and to the moderate fiber volume fraction. |
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