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Abstract
Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics (UHTCs) such as silicon carbide (SiC) typically oxidize in extreme environments, which can result in swelling deformations and internal stresses that cause fracture. In this paper, we present two approaches to computationally model this class of technical ceramic failures, and we apply them to SiC. First, a thermodynamically-consistent continuum theory of thermo-chemo-mechanics is specialized to describe thermally-activated oxidation-induced swelling in UHTCs. In transport-limited cases, the specialized model is shown to capture the molecular diffusion of oxidant through the reaction product layer using only fundamental transport properties, i.e. without the need for calibration to reaction experiments. Second, a phenomenological model is presented that can be calibrated to passive oxidation experiments or alternatively to the fundamental model. We use this second approach to analyze oxidation-induced swelling, delamination and fracture in SiC. We implement both models in a computational discontinuous Galerkin (DG) interfacial multiphysics framework, which enables the analysis of enhanced oxidation along fractured surfaces as well as oxidation-driven fracture. We conduct simulations that provide a full description of the progression of the delamination front. Among the important new insights obtained from the analyses, we infer a direct functional dependence between the temperature-dependent oxidant diffusivity and the delamination rate.
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