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Tensile creep of angle-piled boron/epoxy laminates

Journal Article · · J. Test. Eval., v. 3, no. 6, pp. 442-448
OSTI ID:4008497
Tensile creep tests were performed at 75 and 300$sup 0$F on 26 specimens cut from +- 30-deg and +- 45-deg laminates of boron/epoxy composite material to characterize the creep behavior of these materials. A linear viscoelastic laminate theory proposed by McQuillen was compared with the experimental data for the tests run at 75$sup 0$F. The predicted creep strains differed greatly from the measured values, indicating that the linear theory is not applicable to laminates with these filament orientations. A general creep equation of the form epsilon = k sigma/sup m/t/sup n/ was fitted to the experimental data with excellent correlation. The stress exponents m varied from 1.79 to 5.17 for the four series of tests, thus characterizing the nonlinear behavior of boron/epoxy laminates with these filament orientations. 9 figures, 4 tables. (auth)
Research Organization:
National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
NSA Number:
NSA-33-026843
OSTI ID:
4008497
Journal Information:
J. Test. Eval., v. 3, no. 6, pp. 442-448, Journal Name: J. Test. Eval., v. 3, no. 6, pp. 442-448; ISSN JTEVA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English