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Design, Development, and Testing of a Miniature Fixture for Uniaxial Compression of Ceramics Coupled with In-Situ Raman Spectrometer
| Title: | Design, Development, and Testing of a Miniature Fixture for Uniaxial Compression of Ceramics Coupled with In-Situ Raman Spectrometer. |
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| Name(s): |
Jordan, Ryan, Author Orlovskaya, Nina, Committee Chair Kwok, Kawai, Committee Member Ghosh, Ranajay, Committee Member University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Date Issued: | 2019 | |
| Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | This thesis is about the design, development and integration of an in-situ compression stage which interfaces through the Leica optical microscope coupled with a Renishaw InVia micro-Raman spectrometer. This combined compression stage and Raman system will enable structural characterization of ceramics and ceramic composites. The in-situ compression stage incorporates a 440C stainless steel structural components, 6061 aluminum frame, a NEMA 23 stepper motor. Two load screws that allow to apply compressive loads up to 14,137 N, with negligible off axis loading, achieving target stresses of 500 MPa for samples of up to 6.00 mm in diameter. The system will be used in the future to study the structural changes in ceramics and ceramic composites, as well as to study thermal residual stress redistribution under applied compressive loads. A broad variety of Raman active ceramics, including the traditional structural ceramics 3mol%Y2O3-ZrO2, B4C, SiC, Si3N4, as well as exotic materials such as LaCoO3 and other perovskites will be studied using this system. Calibration of the systems load cell was performed in the configured state using MTS universal testing machines. To ensure residual stresses from mounting the load cell did not invalidate the original calibration, the in-situ compression stage was tested once attached to the Renishaw Raman spectrometer using LaCoO3 ceramic samples. The Raman shift of certain peaks in LaCoO3 was detected indicative of the effect of the applied compressive stress on the ceramics understudy. | |
| Identifier: | CFE0007824 (IID), ucf:52809 (fedora) | |
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2019-12-01 M.S.M.E. Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Masters This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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| Subject(s): | Mechanical Testing -- Structural Characterization -- In-Situ Compression -- Raman Spectroscopy -- Raman Spectrometer -- Micro-Raman Spectroscopy -- Uniaxial Compression -- Ceramics -- Advanced Ceramics -- LaCoO3 -- Lanthanum cobaltite -- Ferroelastic -- Solid Oxide Fuel Cells -- Oxygen Separation -- Residual Stress -- Design -- Development -- NDI -- Nondestructive Inspection -- Universal Testing -- Micro Mechanical Testing -- Compression Fixture -- Finite Element Analysis -- Optical Microscope -- In-situ Mechanical Testing -- In-situ Structural Characterization | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007824 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | public 2019-12-15 | |
| Host Institution: | UCF |
