Research Paper

Numerical Simulation of Isothermal Chemical Vapor Infiltration
Process for Fabrication of C/SiC Composites

  • WEI Xi ,
  • CHENG Lai-Fei ,
  • ZHANG Li-Tong ,
  • XU Yong-Dong
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  • National Key Laboratory of Thermostructural Composite Materials,
    Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China

Received date: 2005-09-02

  Revised date: 2005-11-10

  Online published: 2006-09-20

Abstract

The multi-scale porosity model
depicting infiltration induced changes of carbon fiber preform and the
mathematical model depicting ICVI process for fabrication of C/SiC composites
were developed. The integrated model was proposed to simulate densification
behavior of C/SiC composites. The correspondences of calculation results and
the experimental data indicate that the model is reasonable and feasible to
characterize ICVI process of C/SiC composites. The calculated results, such
as distribution of local porosity, uniformity of densification and evolution
of global porosity during infiltration process, lay foundation of further
research and optimization of ICVI process for fabrication of C/SiC composites.

Cite this article

WEI Xi , CHENG Lai-Fei , ZHANG Li-Tong , XU Yong-Dong . Numerical Simulation of Isothermal Chemical Vapor Infiltration
Process for Fabrication of C/SiC Composites[J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2006
, 21(5) : 1179 -1184 . DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1077.2006.01179

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