Damage and Failure of Ceramic Metal Composites: Experimental and Numerical Investigations

  • Thomas Emmel
  • Ulrich Stiefel
  • Dietmar Gross
  • Jürgen Rödel
Part of the Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics book series (LNACM, volume 10)

Abstract

Failure in ceramic metal composites due to temperature induced stresses during production and external loading is investigated. Two different structures, a, metal layer between two ceramic supports and an inter-penetrating network, correlated to two different failure modes are studied in detail. Cavitation is found to be one significant mode of (internal) damage, which decreases the strength of the composite and subsequently leads to failure. Interface debonding, in conjunction with crack branching at the interface is another failure mode. Experimental observations are compared with numerical calculations, leading to a theoretical description to predict the failure mode and the critical stresses in the composite.

Keywords

Failure Mode Metal Layer Interface Debonding Cavity Nucleation Initial Yield Stress 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Thomas Emmel
    • 3
  • Ulrich Stiefel
    • 2
  • Dietmar Gross
    • 1
  • Jürgen Rödel
    • 2
  1. 1.Institute of MechanicsDarmstadt University of TechnologyDarmstadtGermany
  2. 2.Institute of Material ScienceDarmstadt University of TechnologyDarmstadtGermany
  3. 3.Institute of MechanicsAachenGermany

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