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Zero-Shrinkage Whisker Fraction in Ceramic Matrix-Ceramic Whisker Composites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

Elizabeth A. Holm  and
M. J. Cima
Elizabeth A. Holm
Affiliation:
Ceramics Processing Research Laboratory, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 12-002, Cambridge, MA 02139
M. J. Cima
Affiliation:
Ceramics Processing Research Laboratory, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 12-002, Cambridge, MA 02139
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Abstract

A Monte Carlo computer simulation that percolates soft-core, pseudographic whiskers in a discrete matrix has been developed, and two- and three-dimensional whisker percolation thresholds were determined for various whisker aspect ratios. The percolation thresholds were found to agree with the predictions of the excluded volume theory of percolation; moreover, the thresholds were found to coincide with the zero-shrinkage whisker fraction in ceramic matrix-ceramic particle composites.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 155: Symposium L – Processing Science of Advanced Ceramics , 1989 , 319
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1989

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