Experiment research on mechanical behavior of the aluminum laminate in the low-high temperature

Aluminum laminate is one kind of the rigidizable composite materials and plays an important role in construction of the inflatable space structure (ISS), which has potential application in space in the future. But the study of the predecessors mainly focuses on the research of the mechanical behavior in the room temperature, for this reason, mechanical properties of the aluminum laminate in low-high temperature have been studied in this paper. The failure mechanism of the aluminum laminate is also analyzed in the microscopic view by JCXA-T33 electron probe. The results show that the temperature has significant influence on the strength and Young's modulus of the aluminum laminate. With the increase of temperature, both the strength and Young's modulus of the aluminum laminate decrease. A model between Young's modulus of the aluminum laminate and temperatures is obtained by using Arrhenius equation. The predicted values by the model agree well with the experiment values.