Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:57:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RenataCTSF_TESE_1-81.pdf: 4666386 bytes, checksum: 75d1cdda6a2cab121f77f0774f7de4e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-09-14 / There are a number of damaging mechanisms that various materials can suffer in service. However, when working with polymer composite materials, this is something that requires analysis, especially when exposed to adverse environmental conditions. Thus, the objective of the present thesis is the study of the direct influence of environmental aging and the form of hybridization of the reinforcement woven on the structural stability, surfacedegradation and fracture process of polymer composites laminates. For this, the development of two polymer composite laminates was necessary, where one of them was reinforced with a bi-directional woven with hybrid strandsofkevlar-49/glass-Efibers, and the other also with a bi-directionalwoven, however with weft and warpformed of alternating strandsof Kevlar-49 fibers and glass-E fiber The reinforcementwoven are industrially manufactured. Both laminates use a polyester resin as a matrixand are made up of four layers each. All laminates were industrially prepared by the hand lay-up method of manufacturing. To do this, test specimens were manufactured of the respective laminates and submitted to environmental aging accelerated through the aging chamber. They were exposed to alternating cycles of UV radiation and moisture (heated steam) for a standard defined period. At the end of the exposure period the specimens were subjected to mechanical tests of uniaxial tensile and bending in three points and to the characterizationsof the fracture and surface deterioration. In addition, they were submitted to a structural degradation assessment by the measurement of mass variation technique (MMVT) and the measurement of thickness variation technique (MTVT), this last technique being developed in this thesis. At the end of the analysis it was observed that the form of hybridization of the reinforcement woven and the aging process directly influence with losses or gain in mechanical properties, with losses in the structural degradation and in the formation and propagation of damage mechanism of the developedcomposite laminates / S?o v?rios os mecanismos de danos que os diversos materiais podem sofrer em servi?o. No entanto, ao se trabalhar com os materiais comp?sitos polim?ricos isso ? algo que necessita de an?lises principalmente quando expostos a condi??es ambientais adversas. Logo, a respectiva tese objetiva o estudo da influ?ncia direta do envelhecimento ambiental e da forma de hibridiza??o dos tecidos de refor?o no comportamento mec?nico, degrada??o estrutural (dimensional e de massa) de laminados comp?sitos polim?ricos. Para tanto se fez necess?rio o desenvolvimento de dois laminados comp?sitos polim?ricos, onde um deles ? refor?ado com um tecido bidirecional com mecha h?brida de fibras de kevlar-49/vidro-E e o outro com um tecido tamb?m bidirecional, por?m com trama e urdume formadas com mechas alternadas de fibras kevlar-49 e fibras de vidro-E. Os tecidos de refor?o s?o de fabrica??o industrial. Ambos os laminados utilizam como matriz a resina de poli?ster, sendo constitu?dos de quatro camadas cada. Todos os laminados foram confeccionados industrialmente pelo m?todo de fabrica??o handlay-up. Desta forma, foram fabricados corpos de provas (CP s) dos respectivos laminados e submetidos ao envelhecimento ambiental acelerado atrav?s da c?mara de envelhecimento. Os mesmos foram expostos aos ciclos alternados de radia??o UV e umidade (vapor aquecido) por um per?odo definido em norma. Ao t?rmino do per?odo de exposi??o os CP s foram submetidos aos ensaios mec?nicos de tra??o uniaxial e flex?o em tr?s pontos e ?s caracteriza??es da fratura e da deteriora??o superficial. Al?m disso, foram submetidos ? avalia??o da degrada??o estrutural mediante a t?cnica de media??o de varia??o de massa (TMVM) e a t?cnica de medi??o de varia??o de espessura (TMVE), sendo essa ?ltima desenvolvida nesta tese. Ao t?rmino das an?lises foi observado que a forma de hibridiza??o dos tecidos de refor?o e o processo de envelhecimento influenciam diretamente, seja com perdas ou ganho naspropriedades mec?nicas, com perdas na degrada??o estrutural e na forma??o e propaga??o do mecanismo de dano dos laminados comp?sitos desenvolvidos