Print Email Facebook Twitter Thermal cycling of (heated) fibre metal laminates Title Thermal cycling of (heated) fibre metal laminates Author Muller, B. Hagenbeek, M. (TU Delft Structural Integrity & Composites) Sinke, J. (TU Delft Structural Integrity & Composites) Date 2016 Abstract Fibre metal laminates with integrated heater elements have a promising potential as de- or anti-icing systems in aircraft structures. The alternating metal and composite lay-up in fibre metal laminates seems ideal for the development of a multifunctional skin with embedded heater elements. However, the long term durability needs to be carefully examined.A unique thermal cycling setup has been designed and built to investigate the effects of thermal cycling on the material properties of GLARE (glass fibre reinforced aluminium). Peltier elements were used to provide external heating and external cooling by inverting the direction of the electrical current. With the same setup, heated GLARE samples can be internally heated using the integrated heater elements and externally cooled using the Peltier elements.Glass-fibre epoxy composite, GLARE, and heated GLARE samples have been thermal cycled for 4000, 8000 and 12,000 cycles with temperature differences of 120 °C. The interlaminar shear strength (ILSS) increased by 6.9% after 8000 cycles for the glass-fibre epoxy composite material compared to the non-cycled samples. The GLARE samples showed a maximum ILSS increase of 4.2% after 12,000 cycles. However, the heated GLARE samples showed a continuous decrease of the ILSS with a maximum decrease of 7.8% after 12,000 cycles. Subject Glass-fibre epoxy composite(Heated) GLAREThermal cyclingDevice designInterlaminar shear strength To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5448a563-b051-4879-a52f-a7800fa8828e DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2016.05.020 Embargo date 2018-10-01 ISSN 0263-8223 Source Composite Structures, 152, 106-116 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 B. Muller, M. Hagenbeek, J. Sinke Files PDF Muller_Hagenbeek_Sinke_20 ... tprint.pdf 8.94 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5448a563-b051-4879-a52f-a7800fa8828e/datastream/OBJ/view