Interlaminar fatigue crack growth of cross-ply composites under thermal cycles

Anti‐symmetrical curved composite laminate subject to delamination induced by thermal cycling

“…The stress‐free temperature could be defined as the reference temperature at which the laminate is not under residual thermal stress. This temperature could not be considered the same as the curing temperature, as the later still presents the chemical residual stresses . However, in situations when the stress‐free temperature is unknown, the use of the curing temperature is recommended .…”

“…This temperature could not be considered the same as the curing temperature, as the later still presents the chemical residual stresses. 23 However, in situations when the stress-free temperature is unknown, the use of the curing temperature is recommended. 28 For this reason, a temperature variation of ΔT = À156°C was defined based on the cure temperature being T ref = T cure = 180°C and T op = 24°C to define the global degree of mesh refinement.…”

Influence of temperature on the delamination process under mode I fracture and dynamic loading of two carbon–epoxy composites

“…The authors analyzed the elastic properties of the material at different temperatures in order to evaluate the stress intensity factor. Other authors [15][16][17][18][19][20] have analyzed the effect of temperature on composites under static and fatigue loading for different modes of fracture with thermal and moisture effects.…”

Thermal Fatigue Analyses of Riveted Structures

“…When the literature is examined, it is seen that generally thermal fatigue properties are examined between high temperatures above zero degrees. Lee et al [1] investigated between ambient temperature and + 177 °C, Persson et al [2,3] between 170 °C and 650-850 °C, Paffumi et al [4] between ambient temperature and 300-550 ° C, Toshio Ramanujam et al [5] between ambient temperature and 140 °C. In addition, in some studies, the thermal fatigue characteristics have been examined for restricted materials for below and above zero degrees [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13].…”