Author : S. Kruch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Book Synopsis Creep Damage and Creep-Fatigue Damage Interaction Model for Unidirectional Metal-Matrix Composites by : S. Kruch
Download or read book Creep Damage and Creep-Fatigue Damage Interaction Model for Unidirectional Metal-Matrix Composites written by S. Kruch and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multiaxial, isothermal, continuum damage mechanics model for creep and creep-fatigue interaction of a unidirectional metal-matrix composite (MMC) volume element is presented. The model is phenomenological, stress based, and assumes a single scalar internal damage variable with directional-dependent evolution. The present creep damage model is an extension of the Leckie-Hayhurst creep damage model to unidirectional MMCs and is shown when taken to its isotropic limit, to directly simplify to this previously developed and validated isotropic creep damage model. This extension is accomplished by introducing into the isochronous damage function physically meaningful stress invariants that reflect the local stress and material orientation within a metallic, transversely isotropic material (for example, hexagonally packed unidirectional metal-matrix composite). These invariants are included based on the anticipation that the associated stress may strongly influence void growth at the fiber-matrix interface (as this interface is postulated to play a role, on the mesostructural scale, analogous to that of grain boundaries on the microstructural scale and interfacial degradation); and, consequently may correlate with a creep rupture mechanism based on interfacial degradation through diffusion-related void growth.