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Delaminations are of great concern to any fiber reinforced polymer composite (FRPC) structure. In order to develop the most efficient structure, designers may incorporate hybrid composites to either mitigate the weaknesses in one material or take advantage #of the strengths of another. When these hybrid structures are used at service temperatures outside of the cure temperature, residual stresses can develop at the dissimilar interfaces. These residual stresses impact the initial stress state at the crack tip of any flaw in the structure and govern whether microcracks, or other defects, grow into large scale delaminations. Recent experiments have shown that for certain hybrid layups which are used to determine the strain energy release rate, G, there may be significant temperature dependence on the apparent toughness. While Nairn and Yokozeki believe that this effect may solely be attributed to the release of stored strain energy in the specimen as the crack grows, others point to a change in the inherent mode mixity of the test, like in the classic interface crack between two elastic layers solution given by Suo and Hutchinson. When a crack is formed at the interface of two dissimilar materials, while the external loading, in the case of a double cantilever beam (DCB), is pure mode I, the stress field at the crack tip produces a mixed-mode failure. Perhaps a change in apparent toughness with temperature can be the result of an increase in mode mixity. This study serves to investigate whether the residual stress formed at the bimaterial interface produces a noticeable shift in the strain energy release rate-mode mixing curve.
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Werner, B.T., Nelson, K., Nelson, C. (2019). Effect of Process Induced Residual Stress on Interlaminar Fracture Toughness on Hybrid Composites. In: Thakre, P., Singh, R., Slipher, G. (eds) Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid and Multifunctional Materials, Volume 5. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95510-0_41
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