Process-Induced Stress Relaxation Analysis of AS4/3501-6 Laminate

In this study the cure-dependent stress relaxation of 3501-6 epoxy resin was analyzed. To formulate the constitutive equations, several stress relaxation tests were performed at different degree of cure states. The master curve and shift function for each degree of cure case were obtained by time-temperature superposition. On the basis of this data, the thermorheologically complex behavior of 3501-6 epoxy resin was modeled. The resin model was...