FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Long-Term Mechanical Behavior of Aramid Fibers in Seawater BT AF DEROMBISE, Guillaume CHAILLEUX, Emmanuel FOREST, Bertrand RIOU, Luc LACOTTE, Nicolas VAN SCHOORS, L. Vouyovitch DAVIES, Peter AS 1:2;2:1;3:3;4:3;5:3;6:2;7:3; FF 1:;2:;3:PDG-REM-RDT-MS;4:PDG-REM-RDT-MS;5:PDG-REM-RDT-MS;6:;7:PDG-REM-RDT-MS; C1 Lab Cent Ponts & Chaussees, Div Struct & Mat Infrastruct Transport, Bouguenais, France. Lab Cent Ponts & Chaussees, Div Mat Physicochem, Paris, France. IFREMER French Ocean Res Inst, Mat & Struct Grp, Brest, France. C2 LCPC, FRANCE LCPC, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-DOP-DCB-RDT-MS PDG-REM-RDT-MS IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-france IF 1.302 TC 11 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00039/15049/12604.pdf LA English DT Article AB Aramid fibers are today proposed in ropes and cables for marine applications. As these highly crystalline materials are loaded in tension for a longer period in seawater, their long-term mechanical behavior has to be understood. However, the response is time-dependent and exhibits a nonlinear effect with stress. In this study, two types of aramid fibers are studied: Twaron and Technora. Mechanical properties are measured using static tensile tests and creep-recovery tests. A nonlinear viscoelastic-viscoplastic model, based on the Schapery formulation, allows discriminating between the instantaneous and the time-dependent response as well as the reversible and nonreversible phenomena (plasticity). First, this procedure allows the overall mechanical behavior of the fibers to be compared, considering creep rate, plasticity, and instantaneous moduli. Then, using these parameters, the effect of the testing condition, air or seawater is studied. Finally, the effect of aging in seawater is quantified for both fibers. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 51:1366-1375, 2011. (C) 2011 Society of Plastics Engineers PY 2011 PD JUN SO Polymer Engineering And Science SN 0032-3888 PU Wiley-blackwell VL 51 IS 7 UT 000292116900015 BP 1366 EP 1375 DI 10.1002/pen.21922 ID 15049 ER EF