Abstract
Ceramic fiber composites are currently being developed for potential high temperature structural applications. Fibers for these applications are being produced from polymer precursors, such as Nicalon™ silicon carbide (SiC) fibers, commercially produced from polycarbosilane (Nippon Carbon Co.). Experimental ceramic fibers are also being produced as part of a DARPA funded government program by Dow Corning and Celanese. The physical properties of glass and ceramic fibers are well known to be controlled by microstructural features such as crystallinity and crystallite sizes, the nature of amorphous phases, porosity and internal and surface defects or flaws. Defects are known to act as stress concentrators, and the well known Griffith criteria relates their sizes to the tensile stress.
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