Structural and Mechanical Characterization of Hi-Nicalon Fibers

Abstract

Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2012 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, July 29 – August 2, 2012.

Mechanical Properties of Silicon Carbide Fibers by Spherical Indentation Technique

“…The elastic modulus obtained from this study was 222 GPa and the hardness was 32 GPa; the hardness is simply defined as the applied load divided by the area of the residual indentation. The microstructure of the SiC Hi-Nicalon fibers was investigated using HRTEM and was published in one of our previous papers [5].…”