TY - CONF A1 - Kraus, David A1 - Trappe, Volker T1 - Impact of thermal loads on the damage onset of fiber reinforced plastics N2 - In this study, quasi-static material tests on unidirectional and multi-angle glass fiber reinforced epoxy laminates at ambient temperatures from -213 K to 353 K (-60 °C to +80 °C) are performed. In addition, neat resin is investigated under tension and compression loads at different temperatures. The coefficient of thermal expansion is determined for neat resin and unidirectional reinforced specimens. The dependence of the resin’s thermomechanical properties on the ambient temperature is shown. The point of damage onset at which first cracks appear within the matrix under quasi-static loading is investigated by means of optical grey scale analysis. The correlation between damage onset and effective matrix stress at different ambient temperatures is identified. An approach for the calculation of thermomechanical loads and the prediction of the damage onset by means of inverse calculations is presented. The impact of the strain blocking effect of the matrix is considered as well as residual thermal stresses due to curing and resin shrinkage. T2 - ICCM21 - 21th International conference on composite materials CY - Xi'an, China DA - 20.08.2017 KW - Fatigue KW - Composite KW - Thermomechanics KW - Fiber reinforced plastics KW - Damage onset PY - 2017 SP - 1 EP - 12 AN - OPUS4-42075 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -