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Extension Of A Noninteractive Reliability Model For Ceramic Matrix Composites, Stephen F. Duffy, Robert C. Wetherhold, Lalit K. Jain

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

In the next decade ceramic composites will increasingly be used as high-temperature components in advanced gas turbines. Ceramic components will allow an increase in the operating temperature of the gas stream (measured by the turbine entry temperature), thereby resulting in greater fuel economy in aerospace and automotive turbine applications. Since these materials will be produced from abundant nonstrategic materials, computational structural mechanics methods are evolving to keep pace with this technology. As a result, establishing protocols for sound design methodology, which is the subject of this technical note, is the focus of much current analytical research.

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