Author Affiliations
11. State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China22. Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, Chinashow less
. Schematic figure of three-point test within-situ AE monitoring system
. Typical SEM images of (a, b) as-grown SiCnw, (c) BN-coated SiCnw, and typical SEM images demonstrating the pore size of (d) SiCf/SiC and (e) SiCf/SiC-SiCnw composites
. SEM fractural morphologies of (a) as-grown SiCnw, (b, c) BN-coated SiCnw in composites Local parts marked by white rectangular borders demonstrating that SiCnw tends to break (a) or pull out (b, c)
. Fracture morphologies of composite (a) SiCf/SiC, (b) SiCf/SiC-SiCnw and (c) SiCf/SiC-SiCnw/BN The images demonstrating the pull-out length of fibers
. Representative normalized cumulative AE energy curves as a function of stress (a) for composite SiCf/SiC (orange), SiCf/SiC-SiCnw (black) and SiCf/SiC-SiCnw/BN (blue)
. Typical stress-strain curves of SiCf/SiC(orange), SiCf/SiC-SiCnw (black) and SiCf/SiC-SiCnw/BN (blue)
. Scatter diagrams of the energy of individual AE events as a function of time in composites (a) SiCf/SiC, (b) SiCf/SiC-SiCnw, and (c) SiCf/SiC-SiCnw/BN
. SEM micrographs of crack propagation around the indentation in composites (a) SiCf/SiC; (b) SiCf/SiC-SiCnw; (c) SiCf/SiC-SiCnw/BN
Composite | SiCf/SiC
| SiCf/SiC-
SiCnw/BN
| SiCf/
SiC-SiCnw |
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Bulk density/(g·cm-3)
| (1.98±0.03) | (2.02±0.04) | (2.08±0.03) | Open porosity/% | (17.64±1.08) | (14.39±0.60) | (11.58±1.35) |
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Table 1. Density and porosity of different composites
Composite | SiCnw content /
wt%
| Flexural strength,
σu/MPa
| Proportional limit
stress, σPL/MPa
| Strain at flexural
strength, εu/%
| First AE stress,
σmin/MPa
| AE onset stress,
σonset/MPa
|
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SiCf/SiC
| 0 | (356.7±16.2) | (153.9±6.4) | (0.39±0.05) | (58.8±7.5) | (116.1±8.9) | SiCf/SiC-SiCnw | 2.0 | (412.6±22.4) | (185.1±7.7) | (0.63±0.06) | (66.1±6.2) | (155.8±7.7) | SiCf/SiC-SiCnw/BN
| 2.0 | (506.4±28.3) | (247.7±8.6) | (0.88±0.12) | (78.5±5.2) | (171.6±15.9) |
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Table 2. Properties of original composites, as-grown and BN-coated hierarchical composites