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COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
Volume 79, Issue 1, Pages 84-89Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2005.11.031
Keywords
carbon fiber reinforced composite; low temperature; tensile property
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In this study, the tensile properties of a T700/epoxy composite, which had been cycled with thermo-mechanical loads at low temperatures, were measured using an environmental test chamber. Thermo-mechanical tensile cyclic loading (up to 10 cycles) was applied to T700/epoxy unidirectional laminates at room temperature (RT) to -50 degrees C, RT to - 100 degrees C, and RT to - 150 degrees C (CT), respectively. Results showed that tensile stiffness significantly increased as temperature decreased, while the thermo-mechanical cycling had little influence on it. Tensile strength, however, decreased as temperature decreased down to CT, while the decreasing rate of strength was reduced after CT cycling. For the analysis of the test results, the coefficients of thermal expansion (CTEs) of the laminate composite specimen, both at RT and CT, were measured, and the interface between fiber and matrix was observed using SEM images. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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