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Tribo-mechanical characterization of spark plasma sintered chopped carbon fibre reinforced silicon carbide composites

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Title Tribo-mechanical characterization of spark plasma sintered chopped carbon fibre reinforced silicon carbide composites
 
Creator Agarwal, Shivam
Sarkar, Soumya
Das, Mitun
Dixit, Amit Rai
 
Subject Engineering Materials
 
Description Short carbon fibre (C-f) reinforced silicon carbide (SiC) composites with 7.5 wt% alumina (Al2O3) as sintering additive were fabricated using spark plasma sintering (SPS). Three different C-f concentrations i.e. 10, 20 and 30 wt% were used to fabricate the composites. With increasing C-f content from 0 to 20 wt%, micro-hardness of the composites decreased similar to 28% and fracture toughness (K-IC) increased significantly. The short C-f in the matrix facilitated enhanced fracture energy dissipation by the processes of crack deflection and bridging at C-f/SiC interface, fibre debonding and pullout. Thus, 20 wt% C-f/SiC composite showed > 40% higher K-IC over monolithic SiC (K-IC approximate to 4.51 MPa m(0.5)). Tribological tests in dry condition against Al2O3 ball showed slight improvement in wear resistance but significantly reduced friction coefficient (COF, mu) with increasing C-f content in the composites. The composite containing 30 wt% C-f showed the lowest COF. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd and Techna Group S.r.l. All rights reserved.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2016-12
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Identifier http://cgcri.csircentral.net/3785/1/mitun.pdf
Agarwal, Shivam and Sarkar, Soumya and Das, Mitun and Dixit, Amit Rai (2016) Tribo-mechanical characterization of spark plasma sintered chopped carbon fibre reinforced silicon carbide composites. Ceramics International, 42 (16). pp. 18283-18288. ISSN 0272-8842
 
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