Experimental approaches to creep-induced damaging effects under normal ambient and transient moisture conditions in a GFR polymer composite
by V.N. Kytopoulos, I.N. Prassianakis, E. Sideridis
International Journal of Microstructure and Materials Properties (IJMMP), Vol. 1, No. 3/4, 2006

Abstract: In this study some Damaging Effects induced by creep loading under normal ambient as well as transient moisture conditions i.e. by the so-called mechano-sorptive creep in a certain Glass Fibre-Reinforced (GFR) polyester matrix composite are investigated by means of two basic types of experimental approaching techniques. By these approaches it was shown that despite the non-neglecting scatter in the experimental data certain irresistible general trends might be assessed. In this context it was found that the damage 'response' is markedly sensitive to the respective applied 'detection' technique and therefore the damage evolution data obtained by these different techniques are only in certain circumstances comparable.

Online publication date: Thu, 07-Dec-2006

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