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Property testing, characterization, and quality control are three major issues in advanced composite research, development, and applications. These also are common concerns for material scientists, structural designers, and users of composite materials.
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Owing to the popularity of lamina level testing and analysis, discussions in this handbook emphasize development of a lamina level database; however, this is not intended to inhibit the use of any of the other structural complexity level, either singly or in combination. This handbook does not emphasize the structural subcomponent category because it is so strongly application dependent; however, the concepts related to test planning and data documentation for coupon testing contained herein can be extended to structural subcomponent (or higher level) testing.
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A more limited form of screening testing for the characteristic response of a limited number of specific properties (often only one property) is not explicitly named as a testing category, but is commonly performed. Such limited testing consists of small test populations of three to six specimens, usually from a single material batch, and often focuses on specific environmental conditions.
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The term “accuracy” is often used as a generic combination of aspects of both precision and bias. The terms “precision” and “bias”, being more specific, are preferred for use where appropriate.
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A test article is any construction from which individual specimens are extracted. Such a test article may be a flat panel fabricated specifically to develop material properties, or it may be a production part set aside for test purposes.
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Certain polymers, like polybutadiene, resist moisture absorption to the point that moisture conditioning may not be required, these materials are considered rare exceptions. However, many reinforcing materials, including those of carbon, glass, metallic, and ceramic fiber families, are not hygroscopic. As a result, except for polymeric fibers such as aramid, it is usually assumed that any moisture absorption is limited to the polymer matrix.
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Including specific material systems produced with different resin contents.
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The differences reported in the literature are probably caused in part by excessively-high conditioning temperatures; however, even at moderate temperatures water immersion appears to produce a different response in many polymers than that from water vapor exposure. In some cases, matrix components have been known to dissolve into the water.
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Refers to the fiber-dominated properties.
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Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z., Shen, Z., He, S., Li, Y., Chao, M. (2018). Composite Property Testing, Characterization, and Quality Control. In: Yi, XS., Du, S., Zhang, L. (eds) Composite Materials Engineering, Volume 1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5696-3_5
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