报告题目: Composites under Harsh Environments
报告人: Dr./Prof. David Hui, The University of New Orleans
邀请单位：资源与土木工程学院
报告时间：2014年6月4日，星期三，上午9：30-11：30
报告地点：老校部348学术会议室

Topic1: Composites under Harsh Environments

   Presenter The work presents an overview of the current state of the art in low temperature effects on materials in terms of durability and safety of vehicles.  Susceptibility of composites to failure at low temperature is a critical issue for the aerospace industry and civil engineering. Long term exposure to cyclic or vibration can again reduce the stiffness.  The competing effects for fatigue of fiber-reinforced polymer composites at low temperatures will be presented. Emphasis will be on civil engineering structural and other involving earthquake applications, orthogrids, FRP rebars, sandwich structures, guardrails, piers and structural members.
In order to study the effects of high temperatures, the whole range of temperatures from low temperatures -250 deg C to high temperatures up to Glass Transition Temperatures will be examined. Address these issues using phenomenological models and experimental observations. The low temperature effects is the cause of Space Shuttle disaster, and Titanic Ship, and helicopter crashes, and numerous traffic hazards and accidents, thus, all design of vehicles, s or systems must be designed for low temperatures.  As a complete analysis, this work also deals with high temperature failures, which is the reason for one other Space Shuttle accidents in reentry to atmosphere.

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