Composite material with ceramic matrix and SiC fiber reinforcement, method for making same

US6291058A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation - S.N.E.C.M.A · FR

Inventors

• Stephane Goujard · Moissy-Cramayel, FR
• Alain Caillaud · Villenave-d'Ornon, FR
• Sébastien Bertrand · Parempuyre, FR
• Rene Pailler · Cestas, FR
• Jean-Luc Charvet · Saint-Médard-en-Jalles, FR

Key dates

• Filing date: May 27, 1999
• Grant date: Sep 18, 2001
• Expiry date: May 27, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/24993
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The material comprises fiber reinforcement made of fibers that are essentially constituted by silicon carbide, and an interphase layer between the fibers of the reinforcement and the matrix. The reinforcing fibers are long fibers containing less than 5% atomic residual oxygen and they have a modulus greater than 250 GPa, and the interphase layer is strongly bonded to the fibers and to the matrix such that the shear breaking strengths within the interphase layer and at the fiber-interphase bonds and at the interphase-matrix bonds are greater than the shear breaking strengths encountered within the matrix.