“…Carbon fiber reinforced ceramic matrix composites are promising for applications requiring not only high strength, high fracture toughness, and low specific weight but also at ultrahigh temperatures , . More recently, fabricating silicon-containing CMCs from polysilanes, polysiloxanes, polycarbosilanes, and polysilazanes, the so-called polymer-derived ceramics (PDCs), has gained interest because of the advantages of their low processing temperatures, controllable ceramic compositions and neat-net-shapes .…”