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However, the pore defects on the composites were ignored to a large extent in models established in the previous research. In this study, in order to investigate the bending damage behaviors of SiCf\/SiC (SiC fiber-reinforced SiC matrix) angle-interlock (2.5D) woven composites prepared by the precursor immersion pyrolysis (PIP) method, a more precise full-scale model of composites was established by finite element (FE) method with taking into account of random pore defects generated by Monte Carlo algorithm. Micro-computed tomography (Micro-CT) was employed to acquire the statistical data of the yarns and pores of SiCf\/SiC 2.5D woven composites. A bending test was conducted to study the damage behaviors of the composite and compared with the prediction of the FE model. The result shows that the proposed model with random pores can predict the mechanical damage behavior of SiCf\/SiC 2.5D woven composites effectively under three-point bending. The simulated bending strength shows a good agreement with the experimental data, with a relative error of approximately 4.6%.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ma19050934","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,5]],"date-time":"2026-03-05T14:19:21Z","timestamp":1772720361000},"page":"934","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Prediction of Bending Mechanical Behaviors of SiCf\/SiC 2.5D Woven Composites with Random Pore Defects"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Xiaomeng","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"AVIC Composite Technology Center, AVIC Manufacturing Technology Institute, Beijing 101300, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tiantian","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Astronautic Science and Mechanics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ling","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"AVIC Composite Technology Center, AVIC Manufacturing Technology Institute, Beijing 101300, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Weijie","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"AVIC Composite Technology Center, AVIC Manufacturing Technology Institute, Beijing 101300, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kun","family":"Qian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Special Protective Textiles, Ministry of Education, College of Textile Science and Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mingwei","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"AVIC Composite Technology Center, AVIC Manufacturing Technology Institute, Beijing 101300, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Haipeng","family":"Qiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"AVIC Composite Technology Center, AVIC Manufacturing Technology Institute, Beijing 101300, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Diantang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Special Protective Textiles, Ministry of Education, College of Textile Science and Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2806","DOI":"10.1002\/pssb.200982321","article-title":"Silicon carbide nanowires: Synthesis and cathodoluminescence","volume":"246","author":"Huczko","year":"2009","journal-title":"Phys. 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