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| Tual, Nicolas; Carrere, N.; Davies, Peter; Bonnemains, T.; Lolive, E.. |
| In recent years, many tidal turbine projects have been developed using composites blades. Tidal turbine blades are subject to ocean forces and sea water aggressions, and the reliability of these components is crucial to the profitability of ocean energy recovery systems. The majority of tidal turbine developers have preferred carbon/epoxy blades, so there is a need to understand how prolonged immersion in the ocean affects these composites. In this study the long term behaviour of different carbon/epoxy composites has been studied using accelerated ageing tests. A significant reduction of composite strengths has been observed after saturation of water in the material. For longer immersions only small further changes in these properties occur. No... |
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Palavras-chave: Carbon; Seawater ageing; Diffusion; Mechanical testing. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00278/38964/37504.pdf |
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| Ilioni, Alin; Badulescu, C.; Carrere, N.; Davies, Peter; Thevenet, D.. |
| Most of the adhesives used in the marine industry are polymers with a mechanical behaviour which is strongly influenced by the strain rate. Therefore, it is important to predict with accuracy their viscous behaviour. To describe their mechanical behaviour in a bonded joint, a viscoelastic-viscoplastic constitutive law is proposed here. The viscous effects on the elastic behaviour is described using a spectral distribution, which divides the viscous strain as the sum of the strains of several viscous mechanisms, each of them with a different characteristic time and weight. The viscoplastic component of the model permits a better description of the strong non-linear behaviour of the adhesives. The parameters of the constitutive law are obtained using an... |
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Palavras-chave: Epoxides; Mechanical properties of adhesives; Creep / mechanical relaxation. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00415/52651/53507.pdf |
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