Fatigue strengthening of carbon/carbon composites modified with carbon nanotubes and silicon carbide nanowires

Fatigue strengthening of composites refers to the increase of residual strength after a specific number of loading cycles. This eccentric behavior widely exists in carbon/carbon composites and some ceramic matrix composites while few reasonable mechanisms have been proposed. In the present work, a comparative study of two different types of C/C composites (CNT-C/C with enhanced fiber-matrix interface and SiCNW-C/C composites with strengthened...