Research Article

Residual Stresses Introduced to Composite Structures due to the Cure Regime: Effect of Environment Temperature and Moisture

Table 6

Stresses at critical locations of the RVE for the hot temperature (70°C), where is the First-Stress Invariant and is the stress given by Drucker-Prager failure criterion, where = 62.25 MPa and = −0.061 [10].

ConditionLocation (MPa) (MPa) (MPa) (MPa) (MPa)

ThermalP25.534.761.3011.5961.54
MoistureP2−6.31−7.61−4.59−18.5163.68
FinalP2−0.78−2.85−3.29−6.9262.67

ThermalP33.873.53−4.063.3462.05
MoistureP3−1.42−5.731.72−5.4362.58
FinalP32.45−2.20−2.34−2.0962.38