Abstract
High performance composite fibre or platelet reinforced ceramics were widely expected to have been implemented into a relatively wide range of industrial applications but did not achieve the expected potential whilst for general high temperature refractory applications the vast majority of products have very anisotropic microstructures although they may actually behave as bulk isotropic. Finite element modelling of these complicated 3 dimensional microstructures is relatively difficult due to the very large model size and obtaining accurate material property data.This paper demonstrates the use of advanced parametric finite element analysis modelling techniques of composite ceramics and structures for industrial applications. The accurate modelling of these composite materials and related industrial refractory structures in a reasonable time scale would drastically reduce the materials technology development cycle for existing and new high temperature refractory applications compared to the historically empirical materials and industrial application development cycle.An industrial case study of this approach is demonstrated.
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