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Fiber pull out

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Fiber pull-out

Fiber pull-out is one of the failure mechanisms in fiber-reinforced composite materials. Other forms of failure include delamination, intralaminar matrix cracking, longitudinal matrix splitting, fiber/matrix debonding, and fiber fracture. The cause of fiber pull-out and delamination is weak bonding.

Work for debonding, W d = π d 2 σ f 2 l d 24 E f

where

  • d is fiber diameter
  • σ f 2 is failure strength of the fiber
  • l d is the length of the debonded zone
  • E f is fiber modulus
  • In ceramic matrix composite material this mechanism is not a failure mechanism, but essential for its fracture toughness, which is several factors above that of conventional ceramics.

    The figure is an example of how a fracture surface of this material looks like. The strong fibers form bridges over the cracks before they fail at elongations around 0.7%, and thus prevent brittle rupture of the material at 0.05%, especially under thermal shock conditions. This allows using this type of ceramics for heat shields applied for the re-entry of space vehicles, for disk brakes and slide bearing components.

    References

    Fiber pull-out Wikipedia