The residual stress and strain energy in coated fiber composites induced by a
transformation strain in the fiber coatings are theoretically studied. The relative
analysis utilizes a simplified elasticity model consisting of a coated circular
inhomogeneity embedded in an unbounded matrix, with the coating undergoing a
uniform stress-free transformation strain. The distribution of the residual stress in
and around the coating and portioning of the elastic energy in the matrix, coating
and inhomogeneity are derived and their dependence on the material and geometric
parameters of the three-phase body is investigated. It shown that within
the coating and irrespective of the coating hardness, the magnitude of the
tangential stress is higher than that of the others and the total elastic energy is
distributed almost entirely between coating and matrix with an extremely small
amount stored in the inhomogeneity. As the coating thickness becomes very
small compared to the size of the inhomogeneity, the only nonvanishing
stress component in the coating is the tangential one, with the total elastic
energy accumulating in the coating. In this special case, the thin coating
approaches the behavior of a membrane interface with surface tension, which
is located between a circular nano-inhomogeneity and an elastic matrix,
both consisting of dissimilar crystalline materials. The surface tension of the
membrane interface is represented by the resultant of the tangential stress on the
coating thickness, coming from the lattice mismatch strain of the bonded
materials.
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