Elastic constants of metal/ceramic composites with lamellar microstructures: Finite element modelling and ultrasonic experiments

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 620-626

  Ziegler, Tobias ^a   Neubrand, Achim ^a   Roy, Siddhartha ^b   Wanner, Alexander ^b   Piat, Romana ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

A. Metal matrix composites (MMCs); B. Mechanical properties; C. Finite element analysis (FEA); C. Modelling; D. Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC CONSTANTS; EXPERIMENTS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; MICROSTRUCTURE; POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

A. METAL-MATRIX COMPOSITES (MMCS); B. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; C. FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS (FEA); C. MODELLING; D. ULTRASONICS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ANISOTROPY; CERAMICS; COMPOSITE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC PROPERTY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; MICROSTRUCTURE;

EID: 59849097092     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2008.12.009     Document Type: Article

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