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Evidence of critical scaling behavior during vapor phase synthesis of continuous filament composites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

J. H. Kinney*
Affiliation:
Chemistry and Materials Science Department, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550
D. L. Haupt
Affiliation:
Chemistry and Materials Science Department, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550
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Abstract

We present experimental measurements of the accessible pore fraction in ceramic matrix composites during consolidation by vapor phase infiltration. For two topologically distinct filament architectures, the accessible pore fraction decreased during consolidation with a power law decay and a critical scaling exponent of 0.41 (R2 = 0.97). A three-dimensional analysis of the percolating pores revealed that the structures became topologically equivalent and simply connected near the critical density.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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