Effect of Fiber Bridging Stress on the Fracture Resistance of Silicon-Carbide-Fiber/Zircon Composites |
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Authors: | Yu-Lin Wang Umashankar Anandakumar Raj N. Singh |
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Affiliation: | Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0012 |
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Abstract: | The room-temperature fracture-resistance behavior ( R -curve) of unidirectional silicon-carbide-fiber-reinforced zircon-matrix composites has been studied experimentally and numerically. The composites showed strong rising R -curve behavior from experimental results that used in situ crack-length measurements taken via optical microscopy as well as the compliance method. A numerical calculation, based on the available models, then was performed to determine the bridging-stress function from the experimental R -curve. In addition, the effect of the residual stress and constituent properties on the bridging-stress function also has been considered in the numerical calculations. These results have indicated that the bridging-stress function, which controls the fracture resistance of ceramic composites, can be obtained from the carefully measured R -curve. |
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Keywords: | R-curve stress composites |
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