Thermal cycle effects on laminated composite plates containing voids
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Abstract
Composite structures are often cured in an autoclave to acquire the required space grade quality. Now the industry is focusing on the out of autoclave manufacturing method which leads to more voids inside laminate with respect to those manufactured in the autoclave. In the present work, the influence of voids on microcrack formation under thermal cycling and environmental conditions was analyzed. Thermal cycle experiments were performed using liquid nitrogen and oven, followed by microscopic observation of the polished cross-section of the 90° layered plies. Cracks were monitored, counted, and measured with respect to void and void free areas. Void content was characterized using microscopic and ImageJ software was used. It was observed that the microcracks will be formed both around the voids and in void free areas. As the number of thermal cycle increases, the number of microcrack around the voids increases much faster than compared to the void free areas. Also it was observed that most of microcracks were propagated in the transverse direction. Interlaminar shear strength was measured. Results indicate that interlaminar shear strength reduces as the number of cycle rises due to the increase in the microcrack density. Finite element method was used to simulate the process. The micro, meso, and macro model were created with respect to original samples voids and positions to calculate the stress distribution and its concentration. Good agreement between experiment and simulation was observed.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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