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Viscoelastic behavior of fiber-reinforced composite materials undergoing cure
| dc.creator | Wang, Kai | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-07T22:58:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-07T22:58:00Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1999 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1999-THESIS-W16 | |
| dc.description | Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to digital@library.tamu.edu, referencing the URI of the item. | en |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-87). | en |
| dc.description | Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | A viscoelastic material model has been proposed to characterize the curing and thermal effects on the viscoelastic material properties of both the matrix material and the composite lamina. Micromechanics simulations are used to generate the viscoelastic material properties based on the viscoelastic material properties of the matrix material and the fiber material. Micromechanical simulations of a unit cell for hexagonal periodic configuration of fibers are carried out to determine the material properties of a lamina. A homogenization procedure is adopted to simulate the effective viscoelastic material properties of a group of laminae. The simulation of a realistic composite structure utilizing the finite element method is also carried out to investigate the influence of the temperature and pressure histories on the curing process and to explain phenomena like the formation of marcels. | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Texas A&M University | |
| dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries in 2008. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
| dc.subject | aerospace engineering. | en |
| dc.subject | Major aerospace engineering. | en |
| dc.title | Viscoelastic behavior of fiber-reinforced composite materials undergoing cure | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | aerospace engineering | en |
| thesis.degree.name | M.S. | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
| dc.type.material | text | en |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
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