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Title: Processing and mechanical properties of high temperature/high performance composites. Mechanism-based constitutive laws and design. Book 1. Annual report, 1 March 1992-28 February 1994

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7165852

This document discusses the following: (1) Materials selection and innovation in design; (2) Elasto-plastic analysis of interface layers for fiber-reinforced metal-matrix composites; (3) Modeling of anisotropic behavior of weakly bonded fiber reinforced MMCs; (4) On the tensile properties of a fiber reinforced titanium matrix composite; (5) Control of strength anisotropy of metal matrix fiber composites; (6) inelastic strains due to matrix cracking in unidirectional fiber-reinforced composites; (7) Location and ultimate tensile strength of fiber-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites; (8) Matrix cracking and debonding of ceramic-matrix composites; (9) Matrix cracking of cross-ply ceramic composites; (10) Transverse cracking in fiber-reinforced brittle matrix, cross-ply laminates; (11) The mechanisms of deformation and failure in carbon matrix composites subject to tensile and shear loading; (12) Uncoupled and coupled approaches to predict crack-initiation in fiber-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites; (13) Stress corrosion cracking in a unidirectional ceramic-matrix composite; (14) Effects of gauge length on the tensile strength of SiC fibers; (15) Tunneling cracks in constrained layers; (16) The effect of interfacial properties on the flow strength of discontinuous reinforced metal matrix composites; (17) On dislocation storage and the mechanical response of fine scale microstructures; and (18) Effect of microstructural parameters on the yield strength of Al-4%Mg/Al2O3P composites.

Research Organization:
California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials
OSTI ID:
7165852
Report Number(s):
AD-A-279736/3/XAB; CNN: N00014-92-J-1808
Resource Relation:
Other Information: See also Book 2, AD-A279 737
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English