Publication detail

Fatigue Life Evaluation of Composite Structures

MIHALIDES, D. URÍK, T.

Original Title

Fatigue Life Evaluation of Composite Structures

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

This paper is aimed at fatigue life evaluation of composite structures. Fatigue in fiber reinforced plastics (FRP) and differences between fatigue in composites and metals are briefly described in the beginning of paper. Applicability of Building Block Approach (BBA) to fatigue life evaluation of FRP and fatigue test of real composite structures are also mentioned in the article. Experiments described in the paper are aimed at fatigue properties comparison of composites specimens manufactured by two different technologies. The first examined manufacturing technology is hand lay-up with consequence vacuum-bagging and the second one is resin film infusion (RFI). Same reinforcement was used for both technologies, matrix systems were different. Simple cyclic bending load was applied on specimens during fatigue tests. Tests were carried out on device specially developed for this experiment.

Keywords

fatigue, composites, fiber reinforced plastic, fatigue test, bending test

Authors

MIHALIDES, D.; URÍK, T.

RIV year

2008

Released

1. 6. 2008

ISBN

1211-877X

Periodical

Letecký zpravodaj

Year of study

2008

Number

1

State

Czech Republic

Pages from

6

Pages to

10

Pages count

5

BibTex

@article{BUT49116,
  author="Dušan {Mihalides} and Tomáš {Urík}",
  title="Fatigue Life Evaluation of Composite Structures",
  journal="Letecký zpravodaj",
  year="2008",
  volume="2008",
  number="1",
  pages="6--10",
  issn="1211-877X"
}