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Design and Life Prediction Issues for High-Temperature Engineering Ceramics and Their Composites

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Perspectives are presented on ceramics and ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) as high temperature materials. The emphasis is on design and life prediction requirements and their role in directing research. Important themes include the relative roles of fracture toughness and inelastic strain (ductility), as well as scaling and stochastic effects caused by manufacturing defects. Ceramics with high toughness have been developed. But, because they are inductile, design with such materials is based on elastic stresses, combined with weakest link scaling and extreme value statistics. Procedures that ensure reliable performance under these circumstances are inherently constrained. Opportunities to mitigate these restrictions by matching mechanisms to design are explored. By contrast CMCs exhibit inelastic strain mechanisms that provide an efficient means of redistributing stress. These mechanisms eliminate stress concentrations and suppress scaling effects, enabling design procedures similar to those used with metals. The sources and mechanisms of inelastic strain are described, as well as the ensuing constitutive models. Examples of their finite element implementation in design are presented. A life prediction methodology requires a robust procedure for characterizing fatigue effects in conjunction with manufacturing and machining flaws. A lifting approach is described having commonalty between ceramics and CMCs.

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Evans, A.G. (1998). Design and Life Prediction Issues for High-Temperature Engineering Ceramics and Their Composites. In: Tomsia, A.P., Glaeser, A.M. (eds) Ceramic Microstructures. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5393-9_4

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