Limit Elastic Analysis of FG Ceramic Rotating Disk on the Basis of Effective Mechanical Properties

Abstract

Functionally graded materials are prevalent among industries for its low weight compared to alloys. Depending upon the applications ceramic-ceramic materials can be graded to obtain novel functional combination. In a disk, yielding mainly occurs at the root, hence to overcome the yielding problem, Al2O3 material was used at the root and graded with different ceramics; as ceramics possess high yield strength. In composites, many methods are available to calculate effective mechanical properties and modified rule of mixture (MROM) is one of these. In MROM only single parameter, stress to strain transfer ratio needs to be identified which in present case was calculated using inverse approach i.e. by comparing Halpin-Tsai model with MROM. Variational formulation method was employed taking radial displacement field as unknown variable. The effective Young’s modulus calculated was then verified with experimental data and good agreement was seen. Further effective yield stress distribution was quantified and plotted to compare with von-Mises stress. Limit elastic speed then obtained was used to rank different ceramic-ceramic graded combinations. Limit speed defines the performance of disk and thus it was chosen as a selection parameter.