March 2014

Residual Stress and Distortion – Ceramic Matrix Composites   Now that we have the analysis formulated to address the issues associated with fluid flow, reaction and thermal history the approach can be extended to predict the development of residual stresses and resulting component distortion in the final component. The residual stress generated during processing was […]

Thermal-Ceramic Matrix Composites   In addition to fluid flow and chemical reaction, the thermal response during infiltration of liquid is important to include in any analysis of the RMI process. For CMCs of interest for aerospace use the liquid is molten Silicon with a melting temperature of approximately 1687K, and during infiltration this thermal energy