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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 161, Issue -, Pages 111-126Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2018.11.009
Keywords
Ceramic matrix composite; FFT simulation; Tomography; In situ tensile test; Damage initiation; Porosity effect
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- CEA/CNRS program DM NEEDS Materiaux
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Damage initiation is an important issue to understand the mechanical behavior of ceramic matrix composites. In the present work, a braided SiC/SiC composite tube was studied by FFT simulation tightly linked with micro-computed tomography (mu CT) observations performed during an in situ uniaxial tensile test, which provide both the real microstructure, with a good description of local microstructural geometries, and location of cracks at the onset of damage. The FFT method was proven applicable to tubular structures and efficient to complete the large-scale simulation on a full resolution mu CT scan (similar to 6.7 billion voxels) within a short time. The edge effect due to the numerical periodic boundary conditions prescribed on the real and not rigorously periodic microstructure was quantified. The obtained stress field was compared to the cracks detected by the in situ mu CT observations of the same composite tube. This one-to-one comparison showed that cracks preferentially initiated at tow interfaces, where sharp edges of macropores are mostly located and generate stress concentrations. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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