Influence of fibre volume fraction and temperature on fatigue life of glass fibre reinforced plastics

Dominik Flore; Konrad Wegener; Dominik Flore; Konrad Wegener

doi:10.3934/matersci.2016.3.770

AIMS Materials Science

2016, Volume 3, Issue 3: 770-795. doi: 10.3934/matersci.2016.3.770

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Influence of fibre volume fraction and temperature on fatigue life of glass fibre reinforced plastics

Dominik Flore ^,,
Konrad Wegener

Institute of Machine Tools and Manufacturing (IWF), ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Received: 18 May 2016 Accepted: 27 June 2016 Published: 01 July 2016

The influence of fibre volume fraction and temperature on fatigue life of continuous glass fibre reinforced plastics is investigated in detail. The physical causes of the two effects on the slope of the S-N-curve in fibre direction at R = 0.1 are researched and can be explained with help of micrographs. A new phenomenological approach is presented to model both effects in fibre dominated laminates with different stacking sequences using only the static ultimate strength as an input. Static and fatigue tests of different layups and fibre volume fractions are performed at different temperatures to validate the fatigue life predictions. Additionally it is derived that there is an optimal fibre volume fraction regarding a minimum damage sum. This fibre volume fraction is dependent on a given loading spectra and can be calculated using the phenomenological model.
- fibre reinforced plastics,
- fatigue strength,
- fibre volume fraction,
- temperature effect,
- composites
Citation: Dominik Flore, Konrad Wegener. Influence of fibre volume fraction and temperature on fatigue life of glass fibre reinforced plastics[J]. AIMS Materials Science, 2016, 3(3): 770-795. doi: 10.3934/matersci.2016.3.770

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Abstract

The influence of fibre volume fraction and temperature on fatigue life of continuous glass fibre reinforced plastics is investigated in detail. The physical causes of the two effects on the slope of the S-N-curve in fibre direction at R = 0.1 are researched and can be explained with help of micrographs. A new phenomenological approach is presented to model both effects in fibre dominated laminates with different stacking sequences using only the static ultimate strength as an input. Static and fatigue tests of different layups and fibre volume fractions are performed at different temperatures to validate the fatigue life predictions. Additionally it is derived that there is an optimal fibre volume fraction regarding a minimum damage sum. This fibre volume fraction is dependent on a given loading spectra and can be calculated using the phenomenological model.

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