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    Characterization of fracture toughness of epoxy resin after hygrothermal aging

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    Thesis
    Authors
    Quispe, Gustavo Q.
    Advisors
    Lubineau, Gilles cc
    Committee members
    Bourchak, Mostefa
    Younis, Mohammad I. cc
    Program
    Mechanical Engineering
    KAUST Department
    Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
    Date
    2013-07
    Embargo End Date
    2014-08-31
    Permanent link to this record
    http://hdl.handle.net/10754/301051
    
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    At the time of archiving, the student author of this thesis opted to temporarily restrict access to it. The full text of this thesis became available to the public after the expiration of the embargo on 2014-08-31.
    Abstract
    The aim of this work is to characterize the effects of hygrothermal aging in the plain strain fracture toughness of the epoxy system composed by cycloaliphatic epoxy resin and diglycidyl ether of bisphenol-A (DGEBA). For this, after having been under hygrothermal aging in a climatic chamber, epoxy samples were studied using ASTM D5045 fracture toughness test, and micrography and roughness measurements of the fracture surface. It is reported a rapid decrease of GIc and KIc during the first 2 days. Moreover, a numerical model [13] was used to simulate and see with more detail the water absorption in the aged samples. From that, it was observed the heterogeneous distribution of water. Accordingly, it was proposed that the results should be correlated with the water content at the vicinity of the crack tip. Consequently, it was possible to obtain, by quasi-static simulations, the ideal load-displacement curves of crack propagation in the heterogeneous samples. Finally, another contribution of this work is the study of the fracture surface, that gives a clue of the relationship among the fracture energy, the appearance of microcracks in the fracture surface, and the roughness (Ra).
    Citation
    Quispe, G. Q. (2013). Characterization of fracture toughness of epoxy resin after hygrothermal aging. KAUST Research Repository. https://doi.org/10.25781/KAUST-71BM4
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    10.25781/KAUST-71BM4
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.25781/KAUST-71BM4
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