TY - CONF A1 - Kraus, David A1 - Trappe, Volker T1 - Cyclic fatigue behavior of glass fiber reinforced epoxy resin at ambient and elevated temperatures N2 - The fatigue behavior of ±45° glass fiber reinforced epoxy resin under cyclic mechanical and constant thermal loading is investigated in this study. Tests at three different temperature levels in the range 296 K to 343 K have been performed in order to create S-N curves for each temperature level. The specimen damage is measured in-situ using optical grayscale analysis. The characteristic damage state (CDS) is evaluated for each specimen. It is shown that the point of CDS is suitable as a failure criterion to compare the resulting S-N curves. With micromechanical formulations, the temperature-dependent matrix effort is calculated for each stress-temperature level. In terms of matrix effort, the longest fatigue life is reached at high temperatures, while, in terms of stress, the lowest fatigue life is reached at the highest temperatures. T2 - ECCM18 - 18th European conference on composite materials CY - Athens, Greece DA - 24.06.2018 KW - Composite KW - Fatigue KW - Thermomechanics KW - Residual stresses KW - Temperature PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-45346 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - 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 - International Conference of Composite Materials 21, ICCM21 CY - Xi'an, China DA - 20.08.2017 KW - Fatigue KW - Composite KW - Thermomechanics KW - Fiber reinforced plastics PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-42074 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -