Chunsheng Lu

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the recent advances in oxidation and ablation resistance of carbon/carbon composites and highlighted some open problems and future challenges in the development and application of these materials.

TL;DR: The results show that the aspect ratio of exfoliated silicate platelets has a critical role in controlling the microstructure of polymer-clay nanocomposites and their barrier properties.

TL;DR: The fit of fracture strength data of brittle materials to the Weibull and normal distributions is compared in terms of the Akaike information criterion and the uncritical use of the WeIBull distribution for strength data is questioned.

TL;DR: In this article, a combined compression test with a cohesive zone finite element model was used to determine the interfacial adhesion energy of thermal barrier coatings, and it was shown that the critical interfacial energy of delamination is 120 −J/m 2 and the corresponding loading phase angle is −56°.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple model is proposed to predict the intrinsic hardness of thin films, which allows a more accurate fitting to empirical data and the estimation of ultimate film hardness, which can be used to interpret indentation data and extrapolate the indentation depth-hardness curve to an important region where indentation depths lie between 1% to 5 times of film thickness.