Published June 1995 | Version v1
Journal article

Experimental study of the fracture toughness of a ceramic/ceramic-matrix composite sandwich structure

  • 1. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
  • 2. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
  • 3. Tohoku Univ., Sendai (Japan)

Description

A hybrid experimental-numerical approach has been used to measure the fracture resistance of a sandwich structure consisting of a 304 stainless steel/partially stabilized zirconia ceramic-matrix composite crack-arresting layer embedded in a partially stabilized zirconia ceramic specimen. The mode 1 fracture toughness increases significantly when the crack propagates from the ceramic into the ceramic-matrix composite region. The increased toughening due to the stainless steel particles is explained reasonably well by a toughening model based on processing-induced thermal residual stresses. In addition, several experimental modifications were made to the chevron-notch wedge-loaded double cantilever beam specimen to overcome numerous problems encountered in generating a precrack in the small, brittle specimens used in this study

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Journal Volume
78
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 1633-1639.
ISSN
0002-7820
CODEN
JACTAW