A micromechanical methodology has been developed for analyzing fiber bridging and resistance-curve behavior in reinforced-carbon-carbon (RCC) panels with a 3D composite architecture and a SiC surface coating. The methodology involves treating fiber bridging traction on the crack surfaces in terms of a weight function approach and a bridging law that relates the bridging stress to the crack opening displacement. A procedure has been developed to deduce material constants in the bridging law from the linear portion of the K-resistance curve. This approach has been applied to analyzing R-curves of RCC generated using double cantilever beam and single cantilever bend specimens to establish a bridging law for RCC. The bridging law has been implemented into a micromechanical code for computing the fracture response of a bridged crack in a structural analysis. The crack geometries considered in the structural analysis include the penetration of a craze crack in SiC into the RCC as a single-edge crack under bending and the deflection of a craze crack in SiC along the SiC/RCC interface as a T-shaped crack under bending. The proposed methodology has been validated by comparing the computed R-curves against experimental measurements. The analyses revealed substantial variations in the bridging stress ( ranges from 11 kPa to 986 kPa, where is the limiting bridging stress) and the R-curve response for RCC due to the varying number of bridging ligaments in individual specimens. Furthermore, the R-curve response is predicted to depend on crack geometry. Thus, the initiation toughness at the onset of crack growth is recommended as a conservative estimate of the fracture resistance in RCC. If this bounding structural integrity analysis gives unacceptably conservative predictions, it would be possible to employ the current fiber bridging model to take credit for extra fracture resistance in the RCC. However, due to the large scatter of the inferred bridging stress in RCC, such an implementation would need to be probabilistically based.
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Model for the Effect of Fiber Bridging on the Fracture Resistance of Reinforced-Carbon-Carbon
K. S. Chan,
e-mail: kchan@swri.org
K. S. Chan
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Y.-D. Lee,
Y.-D. Lee
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S. J. Hudak, Jr.
S. J. Hudak, Jr.
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K. S. Chan
Fellow ASME
Southwest Research Institute
, 6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, TX 78238e-mail: kchan@swri.org
Y.-D. Lee
Southwest Research Institute
, 6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, TX 78238
S. J. Hudak, Jr.
Southwest Research Institute
, 6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, TX 78238J. Eng. Mater. Technol. Apr 2011, 133(2): 021017 (10 pages)
Published Online: March 22, 2011
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Received:
December 17, 2009
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July 14, 2010
Online:
March 22, 2011
Published:
March 22, 2011
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Chan, K. S., Lee, Y., and Hudak, S. J., Jr. (March 22, 2011). "Model for the Effect of Fiber Bridging on the Fracture Resistance of Reinforced-Carbon-Carbon." ASME. J. Eng. Mater. Technol. April 2011; 133(2): 021017. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4003344
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