Interlaboratory round robin study on axial tensile properties of SiC-SiC CMC tubular test specimens

An interlaboratory round robin study was conducted on the tensile strength of SiC-SiC ceramic matrix composite (CMC) tubular test specimens at room temperature with the objective of expanding the database of mechanical properties of nuclear grade SiC-SiC and establishing the precision and bias statement for standard test method ASTM C1773. The mechanical properties statistics from the round robin study and the precision statistics and precision statement are presented herein. The data show reasonable consistency across the laboratories, indicating that the current C1773-13 ASTM standard is adequate for testing ceramic fiber reinforced ceramic matrix composite tubular test specimen. It was found that the distribution of ultimate tensile strength data was best described with a two-parameter Weibull distribution, while a lognormal distribution provided a good description of the distribution of proportional limit stress data.