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Effect of Thermal Exposure on Residual Properties of Wet Layup Carbon Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Composites

Ambient cured wet layup carbon fiber reinforced epoxy composites used extensively in the rehabilitation of infrastructure and in structural components can be exposed to elevated temperature regimes for extended periods of time of hours to a few days due to thermal excursions. These may be severe eno...

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Autores principales: Hong, SoonKook, Karbhari, Vistasp M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9319345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35890731
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14142957
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description Ambient cured wet layup carbon fiber reinforced epoxy composites used extensively in the rehabilitation of infrastructure and in structural components can be exposed to elevated temperature regimes for extended periods of time of hours to a few days due to thermal excursions. These may be severe enough to cause a significant temperature rise without deep charring as through fires at a small distance and even high-temperature industrial processes. In such cases, it is critical to have information related to the post-event residual mechanical properties and damage states. In this paper, composites are subjected to a range of elevated temperatures up to 260 °C over periods of time up to 72 h. Exposure to elevated temperature regimes is noted to result in a competition between the mechanisms of post-cure that can increase the levels of mechanical characteristics, and the deterioration of the resin and the bond between the fibers and resin that can reduce them. Mechanical tests indicate that tensile and short beam shear properties are not affected negatively until the highest temperatures of exposure considered in this investigation. In contrast, all elevated temperature conditions cause deterioration in resin-dominated characteristics such as shear and flexure, emphasizing the weakness of this mode in layered composites formed from unidirectional fabric architectures due to resin deterioration. Transitions in failure modes are correlated through microscopy to damage progression both at the level of fiber-matrix interface integrity and through the bulk resin, especially at the inter-layer level. The changes in glass transition temperature determined through differential scanning calorimetry can be related to thresholds that indicate changes in the mechanisms of damage.
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spelling pubmed-93193452022-07-27 Effect of Thermal Exposure on Residual Properties of Wet Layup Carbon Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Composites Hong, SoonKook Karbhari, Vistasp M. Polymers (Basel) Article Ambient cured wet layup carbon fiber reinforced epoxy composites used extensively in the rehabilitation of infrastructure and in structural components can be exposed to elevated temperature regimes for extended periods of time of hours to a few days due to thermal excursions. These may be severe enough to cause a significant temperature rise without deep charring as through fires at a small distance and even high-temperature industrial processes. In such cases, it is critical to have information related to the post-event residual mechanical properties and damage states. In this paper, composites are subjected to a range of elevated temperatures up to 260 °C over periods of time up to 72 h. Exposure to elevated temperature regimes is noted to result in a competition between the mechanisms of post-cure that can increase the levels of mechanical characteristics, and the deterioration of the resin and the bond between the fibers and resin that can reduce them. Mechanical tests indicate that tensile and short beam shear properties are not affected negatively until the highest temperatures of exposure considered in this investigation. In contrast, all elevated temperature conditions cause deterioration in resin-dominated characteristics such as shear and flexure, emphasizing the weakness of this mode in layered composites formed from unidirectional fabric architectures due to resin deterioration. Transitions in failure modes are correlated through microscopy to damage progression both at the level of fiber-matrix interface integrity and through the bulk resin, especially at the inter-layer level. The changes in glass transition temperature determined through differential scanning calorimetry can be related to thresholds that indicate changes in the mechanisms of damage. MDPI 2022-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9319345/ /pubmed/35890731 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14142957 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short Effect of Thermal Exposure on Residual Properties of Wet Layup Carbon Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Composites
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9319345/
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