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Tensile and Fracture Behavior in Mode I and Mode II of Fiber Reinforced Plastics Following Reactor Irradiation

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Advances in Cryogenic Engineering Materials

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Various fiber reinforced plastics (epoxies, poly- and bismaleimides as resins; two- and three-dimensional E-, S- or T-glass fabrics as reinforcements) were irradiated at room temperature by 2 MeV electrons and 60Co-gamma rays up to 1.8×108 Gy and by different reactor spectra up to a neutron fluence of 1×1023 m2(E>0.1MeV) at room temperature, 80 K or 5 K. Mechanical tests in the tensile as well as in the intralaminar crack opening (mode I) and in the shear mode (mode II) were carried out on the irradiated samples at 77 K. After low temperature irradiation, half of the samples were subjected to warm-up cycles to room temperature before testing at 77 K. Results on the influence of different radiation sources and annealing cycles on the mechanical properties of all composites will be compared.

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  1. Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, A-1020, Wien, Austria

    K. Humer & H. W. Weber

  2. Institut für Angewandte und Technische Physik, TU Wien, A-1040, Wien, Austria

    E. K. Tschegg

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  1. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, California, USA

    Leonard T. Summers

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Humer, K., Tschegg, E.K., Weber, H.W. (1996). Tensile and Fracture Behavior in Mode I and Mode II of Fiber Reinforced Plastics Following Reactor Irradiation. In: Summers, L.T. (eds) Advances in Cryogenic Engineering Materials . Advances in Cryogenic Engineering Materials , vol 42. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9059-7_13

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