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However, damage may form in ceramic or joint during RAB. In this work, experimental microstructure characterization, measurement, and prediction of local material properties using finite element analysis were combined to enlighten these damage mechanisms, which are currently not well understood. Micromechanical simulations were performed using representative volume elements. Cooling simulations indicate that small-sized CuO precipitations are most likely to cause crack initiation in BSCF during cooling. The ball-on-three-balls experiment with porous BSCF samples was analyzed numerically to determine the values of temperature-dependent BSCF fracture stresses. The inversely calibrated fracture stresses in the bulk BSCF phase are underestimated, and true values should be quite high, according to an extreme value analysis of pore diameters.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ma16237265","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,21]],"date-time":"2023-11-21T12:12:13Z","timestamp":1700568733000},"page":"7265","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Numerical Modeling of Residual Stresses and Fracture Strengths of Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3\u2212\u03b4 in Reactive Air Brazed Joints"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-3766-8931","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Donat","family":"Rudenskiy","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Materials Applications in Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7339-5467","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Simone","family":"Herzog","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Materials Applications in Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-5607-0097","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lutz","family":"Horbach","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Materials Applications in Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nils Christian","family":"Gebhardt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Materials Applications in Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Felix","family":"Weber","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Materials Applications in Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9356-6932","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anke","family":"Kaletsch","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Materials Applications in Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Christoph","family":"Broeckmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Materials Applications in Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Singh, M. 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