Identification of moisture diffusion parameters in organic matrix composites

Abstract

In this work, moisture penetration in glass fiber-reinforced polymers was systematically investigated through both experiments and theoretical approaches. The diffusivities of the neat resin and those of unidirectional composite plates containing various glass fiber volume fractions have been identified through the analysis of hygro-thermal aging tests. The main aim of the present paper consists in comparing the evolutions, as a function of the fiber volume fractions, of the moisture diffusion coefficients deduced from experiments to the corresponding values, predicted by the many traditional scale transition relations available in the literature.