Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE
Volume 116, Issue -, Pages 677-690Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2018.05.017
Keywords
Micro-mechanics; Analytical modelling; Cohesive interface modelling; Fibre reinforced material; Fatigue
Funding
- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant [722626]
- Royal Academy of Engineering in the scope of her Research Fellowship on 'Multiscale discontinuous composites for large scale and sustainable structural applications' (2015-2019)
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Failure of fibre-reinforced composites is affected by fatigue, which increases the challenge in designing safe and reliable composite structures. This paper presents an analytical model to predict the fatigue life of unidirectional composites under longitudinal tension-tension. The matrix and fibre-matrix interface are represented through a cohesive constitutive law, and a Paris law is used to model fatigue due to interfacial cracks propagating from fibre-breaks. The strength of single-fibres is modelled by a Weibull distribution, which is scaled hierarchically though a stochastic failure analysis of composite fibre-bundles, computing stochastic S-N curves of lab-scaled specimens in less than one minute. Model predictions are successfully validated against experiments from the literature. This model can be used to reduce the need for fatigue testing, and also to evaluate the impact of constituent properties on the fatigue life of composites.
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