Deformation and fracture mechanical properties of precursor-derived Si-C-N ceramics [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Narayanan Janakiraman

Narayanan Viswanathan

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Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung
Stuttgart






Deformation and Fracture Mechanical Properties
of Precursor-Derived Si-C-N Ceramics

Narayanan Janakiraman









Dissertation
an der
Universität Stuttgart

Bericht Nr. 196
Februar 2007
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Deformation and Fracture Mechanical Properties
of Precursor-Derived Si-C-N Ceramics





Dissertation


Von der Fakultät Chemie der Universität Stuttgart
zur Erlangung der Würde eines
Doktors der Naturwissenschaften (Dr. rer. nat)
genehmigte Abhandlung






Vorgelegt von
Narayanan Janakiraman
aus Chennai, Indien




Hauptberichter: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Fritz Aldinger
Mitberichter: Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Dietrich Munz
Prüfungsvorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Ir. Eric J. Mittemeijer


Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 28. Februar 2007




Institut für Nichtmetallische Anorganische Materialien der Universität Stuttgart
Max-Planck Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart
Pulvermetallurgisches Laboratorium
2007



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Dedicated to

Sanjay,

Ananthalakshmi

And

Gomathi























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Acknowledgements

I take this occasion to express my sincere gratitude to Prof. Dr. Fritz Aldinger for
providing me this excellent opportunity to work at the Max-Planck-Institut für
Metallforschung on a stimulating and challenging project. My academic and
research career was primarily shaped and developed during the tenure of this
Ph.D. work. In addition to his all-time support and guidance for the Ph.D. work,
his fatherly attitude, motivation and encouragement meant a lot in the successful
completion of this work.

Financial support for this work provided by the Max-Planck-Gesselschaft is
gratefully acknowledged.

I am indebted to Prof. Dr. Dietrich Munz for accepting to act as the Mitberichter of
my thesis defense. Further, he provided his valuable time and effort to read the
manuscript of this thesis thoroughly and offered useful recommendations for its
improvement.

I thank Prof. Dr. E. J. Mittemeijer for kindly consenting to become the chairman of
my examination committee.

I would like to thank Dr. Andre Zimmermann for initiating me into this Ph.D. work
and for his scientific and organizational support during the initial period of this
work.

This work greatly benefited from the help in experimental work and scientific
collaboration with my co-researchers and friends, Dr. Zaklina Burghard and
Dr. Susan Enders. I also acknowledge their help in reading part or whole of this
thesis manuscript and for providing useful suggestions.

I am grateful to Prof. Dr. Robert Danzer (Institut für Struktur- und
Funktionskeramik, Montanuniversität Leoben) and Dr. Theo Fett (Institut für
Materialwissenschaft, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe) for useful discussion of my
results on fracture characterization, and Dr. Elizabeth Bouchaud (Physicist -
Head of the Division of Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces,
CEA-SACLAY) for providing helpful insight on the fractal analysis of fracture.

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I thankfully acknowledge scientific and personal support from many of my
co-workers at MPI at various stages of this research work. Specifically, Mr. Peter
Gerstel and Mr. Reinhard Mager offered important support in the precursor
processing and mechanical characterization respectively. Additionally, Mr.
Gerhard Kaiser, Ms. Martina Thomas, Mr. Horst Kummer, Mr. Hartmut Labitzke,
Mr. Vogt (MPI-FKF), Mrs. Ulrike Täffner, Mr. Hans Eckstein, Mr. Manfred Binder,
Mr. Horst Opielka and Mr. Ewald Bruckner helped with experiments,
characterization and technical support. I am also thankful to Dr. Clemens Ulrich
(MPI-FKF), Dr. Cai and Dr. Golczewski for carrying out key material
characterization experiments for this work. My friendliest thanks are also due to
Dr. Sandeep Shah (University of Colorado, Boulder), especially for pioneering the
precursor casting route, but also for his advice, guidance and motivation in
scientific and personal aspects with an all-time cool attitude.

Mrs. Sabine Paulsen was very helpful in the sphere of administrative matters,
official formalities and personal issues, always with a friendly disposition.
I deposit my heartiest thanks to her.

I thoroughly enjoyed the warm and positive working atmosphere at MPI and the
friendship of colleagues from various nations and cultures. I submit my
wholehearted thanks to the MPI family for this wonderful time.

Apart from the scientific career that I earned at MPI is the Love, cheers, support
and togetherness of my friends at MPI and Stuttgart,…Goutam, Gokul, Lee,
Kailash, Karthik, Koushik, Nachi, Nuri, Pradyot, Praveen, Ravi, Venki, Vinod,
Vladimir,…it is not just what they said or did, but they were there all the time in
ebb and flow. I express my special thanks to Praveen for his extreme help,
support and motivation during the final stages of this work that kept me going.

Finally I deeply acknowledge the Love and support of my wife Sudha, in enduring
with me all the trouble, during long and late working hours, missed sleep, care
and entertainment. She also practically helped me in many computations in this
work, manuscript preparation, proof reading and correction. I also acknowledge
the Love and care extended by my brother Rudresh in India and for enduring my
long separation away from home.




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Contents
ACKNOWLEGMENTS ......................................................................................... 1
CONTENTS .......................................................................................................... 3
SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS.............................................................. 6
ABSTRACT................................................................................................. 11

1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................... 14

2. FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF
FULLY DENSE SI-C-N CERAMICS FROM A
POLY(UREAMETHYLVINYL)SILAZANE PRECURSOR............................ 18
2.1. Introduction ............................................................................................ 18
2.2. Experimental procedure ........................................................................ 20
2.3. Results .................................................................................................... 24
2.3.1. Fabrication of fully dense samples.................................................... 24
2.3.2. Chemical and Structural characterization......................................... 28
2.3.2.1. Bulk chemical analysis ........................................................... 28
2.3.2.2. FT-IR ...................................................................................... 29
2.3.2.3. Raman spectroscopy.............................................................. 30
2.3.2.4. X-ray diffraction ...................................................................... 31
2.3.2.5. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy ................. 32
2.3.3. Physical and chemical characterization ............................................ 34
2.4. Discussion.............................................................................................. 35
2.5. Conclusions............................................................................................ 39

3. FRACTURE TOUGHNESS EVALUATION OF
PRECURSOR-DERIVED SI-C-N CERAMICS USING
THE CRACK OPENING DISPLACEMENT APPROACH............................ 41
3.1. Introduction 41
3.2. Theoretical Background ........................................................................ 43



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3.3. Experimental procedure ........................................................................ 45
3.4. Results .................................................................................................... 48
3.4.1. COD profiles ..................................................................................... 48
3.4.2. K and G estimates......................................................................... 50 I0 I0
3.4.3. Morphology of crack propagation.....................................