High-temperature flow of SiC continuous fiber-glass ceramic matrix composites: The effect of interface/interphase ductility
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
The elevated temperature rheology of continuous SiC (Nicalon{reg_sign}) calcium aluminosilicate glass-ceramic matrix composites is evaluated in uniaxial compression creep experiments ({minus}{sigma}{sub 1} = 20-to-40 MPa; T = 1,300--1,320 C). The steady state strain rate is demonstrated to be highly sensitive to the orientation of the reinforcement relative to the maximum compressional stress, with highest bulk specimen strain rates noted for conditions in which the sliding between the fiber and the matrix is optimized s a kinetic flow response (i.e., a fiber orientation of approximately 40--50{degree} from {sigma}{sub 1}). One further discovers that the temperature sensitivity (i.e., activation energy) of flow increases as the amount of interface flow/sliding increases. The experimental results suggest that the high-temperature, low-stress interface response in this composite system is related to the ductile flow of the planar SiO{sub 2} reaction-layer interphase that exists (in addition to the well-recognized planar carbon interphase) in these materials. The results of these simple experiments are used to calibrate a microscale-to-macroscale rheologic model in which the fiber-matrix interface is described by a viscous constitutive relationship.
- OSTI ID:
- 100589
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941144-; ISBN 1-55899-266-9; TRN: IM9540%%60
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Fall meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS), Boston, MA (United States), 28 Nov - 9 Dec 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Ceramic matrix composites -- Advanced high-temperature structural materials; Lowden, R.A.; Ferber, M.K. [eds.] [Oak Ridge National Lab., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)]; Hellmann, J.R. [ed.] [Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States). Center for Advanced Materials]; Chawla, K.K. [ed.] [New Mexico Inst. of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM (United States)]; DiPietro, S.G. [ed.] [Textron Specialty Materials, Lowell, MA (United States)]; PB: 493 p.; Materials Research Society symposium proceedings, Volume 365
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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