A Mixed Iteration Method to Determine the Linear Material Parameters in the Study of Creep Behavior of the Composites

This paper presents and applies a mixed iteration method to determine the nonlinear parameters of the material used to study a composite's creep behavior. To describe the research framework, we made a synthetic presentation of the viscoelastic behavior of composite materials by applying classical models. Further, the presented method was based on a calculation algorithm and program, which was applied on several types of materials. In a consecutive procedure of experiments and calculations, we determined the material parameters of the studied materials. The method was further applied to two composite materials in which the nonlinearity factors at different temperatures were determined.