Simulation of fatigue performance of cross-ply composite laminates

✍ Scribed by Xiaoxue Diao; Lin Ye; Yiu-Wing Mai

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 729 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0929-189X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00133682

✦ Synopsis

The fatigue life of cross-ply composite laminates was evaluated using a statistical model. A modified shear-lag analysis was applied to describe the cycle-number-dependent stiffness reduction and consequent stress redistribution processes in the laminates resulted from both progressive transverse matrix cracking in transverse plies and local delamination at tips of transverse cracks. From the strength degradation behaviour and the static strength distribution of 0 ~ plies as well as the fatigue behaviour of 90 ~ plies, the fatigue life of cross-ply laminates with various types of lay-up can be simulated from the model. Predictions of fatigue performance are compared with experimental data for [0/902]s, [02/902]s and [02/904]s graphite/epoxy cross-ply laminates: good agreements are obtained.