• Composites Research
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.74-81
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• 2009

본 연구는 SiC 입자 강화된 알루미늄기 복합재료와 SiC 휘스커 강화된 알루미늄기 복합재료를 이용해서 평면굽힘피로시험을 행했다. 표면미소피로균열의 발생 및 진전거동은 레프리카법으로 연속관찰을 했고 파괴원인과 파괴기구를 규명하기 위해서 주사전자현미경을 이용했다. 두 재료 모두 da/dn - $K_{max}$ 관계에서 고응력 레벨에서는 $K_{max}$의 증가에 따라 da/dn이 증가 했지만, 저응력 레벨에서는 da/dn이 감소하다가 증가하는 것을 알 수 있다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.1584-1592
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• 2000

Reversed plane bending fatigue tests were conducted on SiC whisker reinforced aluminum composite which were consolidated by squeeze casting process. Initiation and growth of small surface fatigue c racks were investigated by means of a plastic replica technique. The fatigue crack initiated in the vicinity of SiC whisker/matrix interface. It was found that a fatigue crack deflected along SiC whisker and grew in a zig-zag manner microscopically, although the crack propagated along the direction normal to the loading axis macroscopically. The coalescence of micro-cracks was observed in the tests conducted at high stress levels, but were not evident in tests in which lower levels of stress were applied. Due to the coalescence, a higher crack growth rate of small cracks rather than those of long cracks was recognized in da/dn -ΔK realtionship.