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Creep behaviour of sandwich panels with rigid polyurethane foam core and glass-fibre reinforced polymer faces: Experimental tests and analytical modelling

Garrido, Mario
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Correia, Joao R.
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Branco, Fernando A.
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2014
Journal of Composite Materials

This paper presents experimental and analytical investigations about the creep behaviour of sandwich panels comprising glass-fibre reinforced polymer faces and rigid polyurethane foam core for civil engineering applications. A full-scale sandwich panel was tested in bending for a period of 3600 h, in a simply supported configuration, subjected to a uniformly distributed load corresponding to 20% of the panel's flexural strength. Additionally, specimens of polyurethane foam core were tested in shear for a period of 1200 h, for three different load levels corresponding to 10%, 20% and 30% of the foam's shear strength. Experimental results were fitted using Findley's power law formulation. Creep coefficients, shear modulus reduction factors and time-dependent shear moduli were obtained for the polyurethane foam in shear. A composed creep model is proposed to simulate the sandwich panel's long-term creep deformations by considering the individual viscoelastic contributions from (1) the core material in shear and (2) the glass-fibre reinforced polymer faces in tension/compression. The composed creep model predictions adequately reproduced the full-scale panel's experimental results. In addition, a good agreement was found between the composed creep model predictions and the extrapolation of the power law fitting obtained from the full-scale panel test, for a 50-year period.

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research article
DOI
10.1177/0021998313496593
Web of Science ID

WOS:000339103200006

Author(s)
Garrido, Mario
Correia, Joao R.
Branco, Fernando A.
Keller, Thomas  
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published in
Journal of Composite Materials
Volume

48

Issue

18

Start page

2237

End page

2249

Subjects

Creep

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composites

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sandwich

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polyurethane foam

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glass-fibre reinforced polymer face sheets

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power law

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composed creep model

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