RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HYSTERESIS MEASUREMENTS AND THE CONSTITUENT PROPERTIES OF CERAMIC-MATRIX COMPOSITES .2. EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON UNIDIRECTIONAL MATERIALS
Jm. Domergue et al., RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HYSTERESIS MEASUREMENTS AND THE CONSTITUENT PROPERTIES OF CERAMIC-MATRIX COMPOSITES .2. EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON UNIDIRECTIONAL MATERIALS, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 78(10), 1995, pp. 2721-2731
The use of hysteresis loop measurements for assessing the constituent
properties of unidirectional CMCs is evaluated, using basic theory des
cribed in a companion paper. Results are obtained on SiC/CAS and SiC/S
iC composites. These materials exhibit very different hysteresis chara
cteristics, reflected in differences in sliding stress, tau, and debon
d energy, Gamma(i). These interface properties are manifest in the res
pective tensile stress/strain curves.