Continuous ceramic fiber reinforced ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) offer an innovative
damage tolerant structural material for temperature regimes inaccessible to high …

The evolution of matrix cracks in a melt‐infiltrated SiC/SiC ceramic matrix composite (CMC)
under uniaxial tension was examined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) combined …

The analysis of failure behaviors of continuous fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composites
(CMCs) requires the characterization of the damage evolution process. In service …

Acoustic emission, electrical resistance, and surface optical techniques were used to
monitor matrix cracking and fiber-breakage during fatigue in tension for [0/90] 2s SiC-based …

Digital image correlation of scanning electron microscope images is a powerful technique
for measuring full-field deformation at microstructural length scales. A major challenge in …

An experimental approach is developed and utilized to characterize the fiber-matrix
interfacial debonding mechanism and its effect on matrix cracking in unidirectional (UD) fiber …

The representative volume element (RVE) in fiber composites refers to the smallest volume
of material that contains all constituents of the composite, ie, fiber and matrix, and is a …

Digital image correlation is utilized to detect automatically crack density in glass/epoxy
laminates with different lay-ups under quasi-static and fatigue loading conditions. The DIC …

Fiber-matrix interface debonding is investigated using a hybrid experimental-computational
approach. Model composite specimens are prepared using a single glass macro fiber …

This paper is devoted to the study of the fracture behaviour of two industrial refractory
materials thanks to the development of a new technique of digital image correlation (DIC) …