Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-dnltx Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-25T06:41:25.688Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Stress Analysis in Graphite/EPOXY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

C. S. Barrett  and
Paul Predecki
C. S. Barrett
Affiliation:
University of Denver Research Institute, Denver, Colorado 10011
Paul Predecki
Affiliation:
University of Denver Research Institute, Denver, Colorado 10011
Get access

Extract

X-rays can be used to measure residual as well as applied stresses in polymers and reinforced polymeric composites, by diffracting from filler particles that are embedded before curing. We have investigated various fillers that exhibit suitable stress induced shifts of diffraction angle when embedded in uniaxial graphite fiber/epoxy composites. X-ray measurements of elastic strains in the particles are proportional to the corresponding composite strains, in agreement with the model of H. T. Hahn. Results indicate that the stress sensitivity (change in X-ray diffraction angle per MPa applied to the composite) increases in the order W, CdO, Hi, Ag, Nb, Al. With Al 333 + 511 reflections of CuKα1, the diffraction angle shifts 8.52 x 10-4 deg 2θ per MPa. Theoretical predictions are in reasonable agreement with this figure. The elastic range terminates at a yield point beyond which little or no further shift of the diffracted beams is seen for metallic fillers, but no such yield point has appeared with CdO particles. Oppositely directed shifts are seen after unloading from stress levels that have exceeded the yield point.

Type
X-Ray Diffraction Stress (Strain) Determination
Information
Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 23: Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, July 30 - August 3, 1979 , 1979 , pp. 331 - 332
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1979

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1. Barrett, C. S. and Predecki, Paul, “Stress Measurement in Polymeric Materials by X-Ray Diffraction,” Pol. Eng. Sci., 16, 602 (1976).Google Scholar
2. Predecki, Paul and Barrett, Charles S., “Stress Measurement in Graphite/Epoxy Composites by X-Ray Diffraction J. Composite Materials 13, 61 (1979).Google Scholar
3. Barrett, Charles S. and Predecki, Paul, “Stress Measurement in Graphite/Epoxy Uniaxial Composites,” accepted 1979, for publication in. Polymer Science and Engineering.Google Scholar
4. Hahn, H. T. in “Composite Materials Workbook,” AFML-TR-78-33, p, 65, March 1978.Google Scholar