The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of temperature and thermal residual stresses on the impact behavior and damage of unidirectional glass/epoxy laminated composites. To this end, thermal stress analyses of the laminates with lay-ups [90/0/0/90]s, [90/0/45/45]s, [0/90/45/-45]s were carried out under temperatures of 20, 90 and -50 °C by using ANSYS software. Damage parameters pro...

Thermal residual stresses in functionally graded materials (FGMs) arise primarily from nonlinear spatial variations in the thermal expansion coecient, but can be signi®cantly adjusted by variations in modulus. Thermoelastic analysis of FGMs is complicated by such modulus gradients. A class of problems for which thermal stress solutions for materials with constant modulus can be used as a basis...

Experiments are conducted on damaged and undamaged space shuttle tile thermal protection system (TPS) to determine its thermomechnical behavior. The TPS specimens, which consists of a LI-900 tile, the strain isolator pad and the underlying structure, is subjected to a temperature profile corresponding to the thermal loading of the Access to Space (ATS) reference vehicle. Experiments are conduct...