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Fatigue and stress-rupture testing of unidirectional Nicalon-type silicon carbide fibre-reinforced lithium aluminosilicate glass-ceramic matrix composites is described. Tensile fatigue testing was performed at 22°C on two different composite systems to contrast the behaviour under applied stresses above and below the levels necessary to cause matrix cracking. The higher strength of the two composites was then also tested in flexural fatigue and constant-load stress rupture at 22, 600 and 900° C in air. It is shown that the level of tensile stress at which composite inelastic stress-strain behaviour begins is an important factor in the control of overall composite performance, and that properties at elevated temperature are significantly different to those at room temperature.
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Prewo, K.M. Fatigue and stress rupture of silicon carbide fibre-reinforced glass-ceramics. J Mater Sci 22, 2695–2701 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01086459
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