Toughening behavior of a two-dimensional SiC/SiC woven composite at ambient temperature: II, stress-displacement relationship in the crack process zone

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1157-1162

  Wang, Yu Lin ^a,b,c   Nair, Shanti V ^a,b  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^c University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; SILICON CARBIDE; STRESS ANALYSIS;

WOVEN COMPOSITES;

CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 0032075773     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1998.tb02463.x     Document Type: Article

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