Transmitted light microscopy of a fibre reinforced metal

• Published in: Journal of Microscopy, vol. 209, num. 1, p. 8-12
• Publication date: 2003

A method is presented for studying fibre damage in continuous fibre reinforced composites. It is based on contrasting the transmission of light through intact translucent fibres with the light through fractured or dead-ended fibres. The method is applied in order to detect processing-induced fibre fractures in aluminium reinforced with continuous alumina fibres.

Note: Laboratory for Mechanical Metallurgy, Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Section Materials Technology, Swiss Fed. Lab. for Mat. Test./Res., EMPA, Thun, Switzerland LEXCOM, Massachusetts Inst. of Technol. MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States 0022-2720 (ISSN) Part 1

Keywords: Alumina fibre reinforced aluminium ; Fibre fracture ; Fibre reinforcement ; Metal matrix composites ; Metallography ; Transmitted light microscopy ; metal ; microscopy

Reference

• LMM-ARTICLE-2003-004
• doi:10.1046/j.1365-2818.2003.01097.x
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