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Fragmentation study of interfacial shear strength of single SiC fiberreinforced Al after fatigue
Yongning Liu a,1,1, Wei Kang a, Jiawen He a, Zuming Zhub
a State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xian Jiaotong University, Xian 710049, Peoples Republic of Chinab State Key Laboratory for Fatigue and Fracture of Materials, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110015, Peoples
Republic of China
Received 4 January 2002; received in revised form 17 May 2002
Abstract
The interfacial shear strength of SiC fiber reinforced aluminum composite has been studied by the fragmentation test of single
fiber reinforced model specimens after a number of fatigue cycles. The result shows that apparent stiffness of the testing machine is
influenced by cyclic loading, which will affect the calculation of fiber strength by Cloughs model. An extracting test in which
fragmented fiber was extracted out by dissolving the matrix material in NaOH water solution indicated that the fiber strength did
not lose via vacuum hot press treatment. This result contradicts the Cloughs model. The experimental result showed that the critical
length of the fiber increases a little after a few cycles of fatigue loading and thus, the interfacial shear strength decreases. The reason
for this is that the thermal residual stress around the fiber developed during fabrication decreases in cyclic loading.
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Keywords: Fragmentation; Composite materials; Fracture; Fatigue
1. Introduction
The fiber reinforced metal matrix composites (MMC)
have been subjected to intensive researches for their
good merits such as high stiffness, high strength, high
damping and high fatigue crack propagation resistance.
The interface between fibers and matrix plays a very
important role in transferring load and turn out to be a
key factor in the mechanical properties of MMC [1/3].
There are several ways to measure the interfacial
strength such as push out, pull out and fragmenta-tion for single fiber reinforced model specimen. Each
method is characterized with its way of measurement
and the results are different. [4/6]. For MMC, push
out and fragmentation are two methods used often [6/
10]. In the fragmentation test, both fiber strength and
interfacial shear strength can be obtained [9/11].
Clough [11] developed a model which can calculate the
fiber strength in the fragmentation test. However, the
calculated results are much smaller than that of the
intrinsic strength of the fiber [11]. As a result a few
papers still followed the way to do the experiments and
released the data [12,13]. According to Clough way, it
seems that the fibers were damaged in the fabrication
process. However, some published data [6,7] did not
agree with the results. The thermal exposure test of a
SiC reinforced aluminum [6] indicated that the fiber
strength did not reduce even at 6008
C for 700 h. This isa problem which needs to be clarified. Further more,
many research efforts have been aimed at the study of
the interfacial shear strength via different fabrication
technologies [5/7,14,15], little work has been done to
examine the fatigue effects on the interfacial shear
strength of fiber reinforced MMC [16,17]. Research
showed that the interfacial shear friction stress between
SiC fiber and titanium alloy matrix measured by the
push out method decreased after fatigue loading [18].
The reason was explained as (1) asperity wear of the
SCS coating layer, and (2) relaxation of radial residual
thermal stress in the matrix. There are two interesting
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questions: (1) whether this phenomenon will occur also
in SiC reinforced aluminum matrix, (2) whether this
phenomenon can be repeated by fragmentation test
because there is no asperity wear effect in the test. This
work is going to study these problems by fragmentation
testing single fiber reinforced aluminum matrix model
specimens.
2. Experimental procedure
The model specimens were prepared by vacuum hot
press. The fiber is SiC with diameter 90 mm and provided
by the Institute of Metals, Sinica Academy. The fiber is
a pure SiC with no any surface treatment. The matrix is
pure aluminum plate of thickness of 1 mm. The hot
press process is conducted at temperature of 600 8C
with constant pressure of 40 MPa for 2 h. The platespecimen was cut into a size of 5 mm in width, 1.8 mm in
thickness and 20 mm in gage length. The tensile and
fatigue tests were conducted in a computer controlled
screw driving testing machine with capacity 10 kN. In
order to study the effect of cyclic loading on interfacial
strength, the fatigue test was performed using the
pulsating method at a stress ratio of smin/smax0/0.
The maximum stress is about 0.8 to /0.9 of the yield
stress of the material. All force and displacement signals
were recorded and processed by a computer. In this test
the fiber will break during tensile process. There is a
critical length of fiber, beyond it the fiber will not breakanymore. An important result is to obtain the critical
length. So an acoustic emission detector AE-02 was used
to monitor the fiber fracture during the tensile test [11].
To obtain the number of fiber fractures after the tensile
test, the fractured fibers were extracted out by dissol ving
the matrix material in NaOH water solution. So the
critical fiber length can be obtained. The critical length
was obtained by a statistical result given by Kelly and
Tyson [20]
lc01
0:75Lc (1)
where lc is critical length, Lc is fragmentation length and
can be obtained by an average of the fiber length in gage
span divided by the number of the fractures.
To examine the fiber strength calculated by Clough
equation and measurement, the fiber was tested by
gluing the fiber onto two steel plates at two sides of the
fiber. The steel plates were clamped by grips of the
testing machine. The stress and strain were recorded and
process by a computer system.
The fracture strength of the fiber can be calculated by
the Clough equation in term of load drop and number of
fractures [11].
sf0NDsuLA
2s
AfkLDN(2)
where Ds0DP=As; DP is the magnitude of the loaddrop, As is the cross section area of the specimen, Af is
the cross section area of the fiber, uL is the macro work
hardening rate at the gage length L , k is the stiffness ofthe test machine, N is the total number of the fibers
fractured, DN is the number of repeated fracture in one
drop, which can be obtained by
DN$DP
DP(3)
where DP is the average of all load drops, DP is one
load drop. Calculated DN is 2 for Figs. 1 and 2.
The stiffness of the test machine can be calculated by
the following equation [13,19]
k0 v
(dP=dt)max(
l
AsEs(1
(4)
where v is the crosshead velocity of the machine, (dP/
dt )max is the maximum slope of the load versus time
curve at the elastic part. l, As and Es are gage length,
cross-section area and Youngs modulus of the speci-
men, respectively. The interfacial shear strength can be
calculated by the Kelly and Tyson [20] approach when
the critical length and fracture strength of fiber are
known
ti0sfd
2lc(5)
where ti is the interfacial shear strength, d is the
diameter of fibers. Putting Eq. (1) into Eq. (5), it yields
[21/23]
ti03
8sf
d
Lc(6)
3. Experimental result
Figs. 1 and 2 are a set of tensile and acoustic emissionsignal curves. Fig. 1 shows the result of virgin specimen
and Fig. 2 is after ten cycles fatigue loading. In order to
show the load drops during tensile test, the part of the
curves with a number of load drop peaks has been
magnified as in Figs. 1b and 2b. Each load drop is
corresponding to the acoustic emission signal in Figs. 1c
and 2c. The signals at the beginning of the acoustic
emission are produced by tightening between the speci-
men and grips, which are basically in the non-linear
region at the initial part of the tensile curves of Figs. 1a
and 2a. The fiber fracture usually occurs after the bulk
yielding of the specimen and results in a load drop, yet
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Fig. 1. The tensile curves and corresponding acoustic emission signals
of specimen without fatigue. (a) Load and time curve of tensile test. (b)
Local high magnification of A. (c) Acoustic emission signals.
Fig. 2. Tensile curve after 10 cycle fatigue loading and corresponding
acoustic emission signals. (a) Tensile curve. (b) Local high magnifica-
tion of A. (c) Acoustic emission signals.
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the duration time and load drop magnitude are differ-
ent. This fact indicates that more than one fracture
could be involved in one load drop and this was
confirmed by the extraction test. For instance, the
specimen of Fig. 1 showed eight fractures according to
the accounts of acoustic emission signal and load/time
curve, however, the extraction test exhibited 13 times offracture. For the specimen in Fig. 2, the accounting
number by acoustic emission and tensile curve was 10,
however, the extraction result was 15. In order to make
a precise measurement of the number of fractures and
the critical length in this study, we are based on the
counted using the extraction test.
From Figs. 1 and 2, it is obvious that there is a great
difference in dP/dt in the elastic regions for the speci-
men before and after fatigue. Because the geometry of
the specimen is the same, from Eq. (4) the stiffness will
deviate according to the difference in dP/dt . The
measurement of (dP/dt )max and the calculations ofstiffness are shown in Table 1.
The values in Table 1 indicate that (dP/dt)max is the
main factor in determination of k. The geometry of the
specimen and the Youngs modulus in the second term
of Eq. (4) would not change much, thus, one order
magnitude difference in (dP/dt )max before and after
fatigue will lead to the same order of difference in the
calculated stiffness. Putting different stiffnesses in Eq.
(2), the calculated fiber strengths are shown in Fig. 3.
The remarkable difference in fiber strength is by no
means due to the specimen being fatigued 10/100 cycles.
The strength of the fibers should be determined by the
manufacturing technology, the composite process andthe chemical reaction at the interface. It should not
depend so strongly on the process of physical loading.
4. Discussion
4.1. Stiffness
The stiffness k is a very important parameter and will
affect the calculation of fiber strength sf with Eq. (2).
Table 1 shows that the difference in k before and afterfatigue is great. This difference real does not come from
machine stiffness while comes from slippage between
specimens and grips of testing machine. Suppose the
displacement between two crossheads could be written
U0Um'Us'Uo (7)
where Um is the displacement caused by machine such as
elastic deformation of machine columns, gaps betweenthe screw threads. Us is the displacement caused by
deformation of the specimen. Uo is the displacement
arisen from slippage.
Differentiating above equation
dU
dt0
dUm
dt'
dUs
dt'
dUo
dt(8)
where dU/dt is the crosshead velocity of the test
machine and can be expressed by v and dUo/dt is
slippage rate and is simplified as vo. dUm/dt is the elastic
deformation rate of the test machine and can be
expressed by omLm and dUs/dt is the deformation rateof the specimen and can be expressed by osl: om and osare the strain rates of the test machine and specimen. Lmand l are the rod lengths of the columns between the
crossheads of the test machine and the gage length of the
specimen respectively. Then,
v0 omLm' osl'vo (9)
The elastic deformation is calculated by Hookes law
o01
EA
dP
dt(10)
Putting Eq. (10) into Eq. (9)
v0
Lm
EmAm'
l
EsAs
dP
dt'v0 (11)
then
dP
dt0
v( v0Lm
EmAm'
l
EsAs
(12)
This equation indicates that the slippage v0 in tensile
test will decrease dP/dt . In the first loading as shown in
Fig. 1, there is slippage effect. After several cycles of
Table 1
Stiffness k and (dP/dt )max with and without cyclic treatments
No cycle 10 cycles 100 cycles
(dP/dt )max (N min(1) 256.0 3180.8 3064.8
k (kN m(1) 257.8 3480.6 3340.3
Fig. 3. Fiber fracture strength calculated by Cloughs relationship
with cycle loading number.
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fatigue loading, the specimens had been tighten and the
slippage had been diminished. Clough [11] did not
mention this effect in the stiffness measurement. How-
ever, It had been recommended by international stan-
dard IOS 2573 [24], that one should first apply and
remove a force at least as great as the maximum load
used in the determination of the compliance of the testsystem.
4.2. Fiber strength
The calculation of fiber strength using Eq. (1)
indicates that there is a great difference using the
stiffness measured before and after fatigue. The calcu-
lated sf seem to be a reasonable, around 2300 MPa, if
the stiffness before fatigue is used. Otherwise, sf is quite
small, around 150 MPa, if we use the stiffness after the
fatigue, which would be much approaching the correct
stiffness, see Fig. 3. It is questionable if the fiber strengthis so low, how can it reinforce the matrix materials?
Some published data showed similar magnitude values
of fiber strength by using Clough model, paper [12]
reported that sf0/494 MPa for fiber SiC, sf0/715 MPa
for SiO/2 treated SiC, and sf0/567 MPa for carbon
treated SiC. Paper [11] reported sf0/798 to /340 MPa
for carbon treated SiC. All these strength values are
around the strengths of aluminum alloys or medium
carbon steels and there would have been a great loss of
the fiber strength in comparison with the original
strength, 3500 MPa [7,25], during hot press process. If
so great a loss of the fiber strength is true, it would be
impossible to use the fiber reinforced composites. In
order to clarify this problem, several specimens which
were subjected to the same hot press technology and
fatigue pre-loading were dissolved in NaOH water
solution. The fibers were taken out and the strengths
were measured again. The result is shown in Fig. 4. In
this figure, 1 presents as received state, 2 presents the hot
pressed state and 3 presents the hot pressed and fatigued
state. There is no substantial loss of the fiber strength
after the hot pressing and fatigue pre-treatment.
This result agrees with many published results
[6,17,26] but disagrees with Cloughs [11,13] data. If
we make a close look at Eq. (2), Clough adopted an
assumption that the crosshead displacement was much
smaller than that of the specimen in a load drop, that is
vdt&/dus, see Appendix A in Ref. [11]. So vdt could be
omitted. Since no data had been shown in his publica-tion to prove this assumption, we did the measurements
in this test.
In Table 2, six load drops have been measured for two
specimens on the tensile curves. The sketch of this
measurement is shown in Fig. 5. For one load drop, the
starting point marked 1 and the end point 2, the
displacement, x , time, t and load, p , at different sites
can be obtained by computer acquisition. Because the
velocity of the crosshead is a constant, the crosshead
displacement can be obtained by vdt0/v (t2(/t1). Con-
cerning the specimen displacement, for a tensile system,
the displacement of the crosshead should be
x0
1
km'
1
ks
P (13)
where km is the stiffness of the testing machine and ks is
the stiffness of the specimen. Because the stiffness of test
machine is a constant, when a fiber breaks, the stiffness
of the specimen will be changed by Dks, then
x2(x10
1
km'
1
ks ' Dks
P(
1
km'
1
ks
P
0 1ks ' Dks
(1
ks
P (14)
This means the displacement between crosshead is
mainly caused by fiber breaking and can be treated as
the specimen displacement. Thus,
Us0x2(x1 (15)
The results in Table 2 indicate that the specimen
displacements Us and the crosshead displacement are in
Fig. 4. Fiber strength after dissolving the matrix aluminum.
Fig. 5. A high magnification of a local region of the tensile curve to
show the load drop and the values which can be measured on this
drop.
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the same order and no rule of vdt&/dus was exhibited.
Even more, there are some values ofvdt larger than that
of specimens. The measurements indicate that the
presumption in Cloughs theory is not true.
4.3. Interfacial shear stress and its changes with fatigue
If the strength of the fibers does not change remark-ably after hot pressure, the critical length of the fibers
can be obtained by dissolving aluminum after tensile
test. The result is shown in Fig. 6. The critical length
increases as the number of fatigue loads increase.
Taking these results into Eq. (6), the interfacial shear
strength can be calculated and the result is shown in Fig.
7. Contrary to the change of the critical length, the
interfacial strength decreases as the number of fatigue
loading increases. The result is in agreement with a push
out experiments of SiC fiber-reinforced titanium alloy
[18].
Guo and Kagawa [18] ascribed the effect of fatigue onthe interfacial shear strength to asperity wear and
residual stress. In fragmentation test, there is no asperity
wear influence. Concerning the residual stress effect,
there is an experimental fitting equation [18]
sTr (N)0sTr (0)exp((b
T11N) (N5100) (16a)
sTr (N)00:65sTr (0)exp((b
T12N) (N]100) (16b)
where sTr (0) is the initial residual thermal compressive
stress of the composite and bT11 and bT12 are the numerical
coefficients and larger than zero. This equation indicates
that the residual stress will decrease with the increase of
the number of fatigue loads. The initial radial thermal
stress sTr (0) is approximately given by [26]
sTr (0)0b1 gDT
0
(af(am)dT (17)
and
b10rEmEf
Em(1( nf)' Ef(1' nm)(18)
where Ef, Em, nf and nm are Youngs modulus and
Poissons ratio of the fiber and matrix, respectively, afand am are thermal expansion coefficient of the fiber
and the matrix in the radial direction, respectively, DT is
the temperature difference over which the residualthermal stress develops in the composite, and r is an
adjustment factor for the effect of fiber volume fraction.
r is equal to unity for an infinite single composite and is
less than unity in usual case [26]. Here, in calculation of
sTr (0); the fiber volume fraction can be neglected and r/0/1 [18], the calculated sTr (0)/0/(/890 MPa. The con-
stants used in the calculation are shown in Table 3.
In the push out test, the interfacial shear frictional
stress, t; is written as [18]
t0(msr (srB0) (19)
where m is friction coefficient and sr is the average
Table 2
The measurements of the displacements of crosshead and specimens in load drops
Specimen 1 1 2 3 4 5 6
Us (mm) 0.0153 0.0089 0.0093 0.0004 0.0045 0.0110
Vdt (mm) 0.0137 0.0063 0.0085 0.0076 0.0069 0.0029
Specimen 2 1 2 3 4 5 6
Us (mm) 0.0084 0.0123 0.0054 0.0046 0.0073 0.0083
vdt (mm) 0.0140 0.0090 0.0050 0.0090 0.0076 0.0140
Fig. 6. Fiber critical length vs cyclic loading number.
Fig. 7. Interfacial shear strength vs cyclic loading number.
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compressive stress acting on perpendicular to the sliding
interface. The friction coefficient m can be calculated by
[18]
m0P(0)
2phRfsr(0)(20)
where P(0) is the maximum load in push out test at
initiation state, h is the thickness of the push out slice, Rfis the radius of the fiber and sr/(0) is the compressive
stress perpendicular to the sliding interface. A push out
test of SiC fiber reinforced aluminum composite was
carried out by Yang [27] and the results were P(0)0/0.65
N, h0/0.17 mm, Rf0/4.57 mm. Putting these values and
the compressive stress calculated above into Eq. (20),
the calculated friction coefficient m0/0.149, which is a
little smaller than that of titanium alloy [18]. Then, from
Eq. (19), the calculated the interfacial shear friction
stress is 132.6 MPa. Comparing the values in Fig. 7 at
pristine case, which is around 75 MPa, the agreement in
the order of magnitude is reasonable. The differencemainly comes from two different measurement systems
as mentioned at the beginning of the paper and in
fabrication technology of samples making. The sample
used by Yang [27] is made by casting while here is made
by vacuum hot press of aluminum plates. Anther factor
is that there is asperity wear effect in push out test. If
putting Eq. (16a) into Eq. (19), we get
ti0(msTr (0)exp((b
T11N) (21)
It is clear that the interfacial shear stress decrease with
increasing of fatigue loading number. Thermal residual
compression stress around the fiber decreases duringfatigue. This makes the interfacial shear strength
decreases also. The Fig. 6 indicates that the fiber critical
length increases with fatigue loading. This phenomenon
related to the interfacial shear stress, from Eq. (5), when
interfacial shear stress decreases, the critical length will
increase.
5. Conclusions
When Cloughs model is used in the fragmentation
test of single fiber reinforced specimen, the stiffness of
the test machine will influence greatly the calculation of
the fiber strength. There is significant slippage between
the grips and plate specimen at the first tensile loading.
One to two times pre-loading is required before the
formal measurement of stiffness.
By dissolving the matrix aluminum and testing the
remaining SiC fiber, it is found that the fiber strength isnot changed after the hot pressure at 600 8C in vacuum
furnace for 2 h. This fact against to the Cloughs data
remarkably.
The measurements of the displacements of the cross-
head and the specimen during load drops on load vs
time curves of tensile test did not prove the Cloughs
assumption that the crosshead motion is much smaller
than that of specimen during fiber breaking in the
fragmentation test.
After 10/100 cycles fatigue loading, the fiber critical
length increases a little and the interfacial shear strength
decreases with fatigue loading.That the interfacial shear stress of SiC fiber reinforced
composite decrease with fatigue cyclic number is mainly
due to the thermal residual stress between the fiber and
the matrix, which decrease with fatigue cyclic loading.
Acknowledgements
This research is a part work of NSFC project:
evaluation of the interfacial properties of aluminum
matrix lamella composite and its relationship with
fatigue (no: 59731020). Authors are also grateful for
the support by Visiting Program of Chinese Education
Ministry as a visiting scholar in State Key Lab. Of
Composite Materials, Shanghai Jiaotong University.
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