CVI Processing of Ceramic Matrix Composites

Ceramics and Composites Processing Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 313-349

  Lazzeri, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cf C composite fabrication by CVI, for material high performance; CVI processing of ceramic matrix, for fiber reinforced CMCs; I CVI, mechanical properties and fiber matrix interphase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886326001     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118176665.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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