scholarly journals Fatigue Damage of Notched Boron/Epoxy Laminates Under Constant-Amplitude Loading

2009 ◽  
pp. 73-73-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
GL Roderick ◽  
JD Whitcomb
2006 ◽  
Vol 306-308 ◽  
pp. 1343-1348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guowen Yao ◽  
Pei Yan Huang ◽  
Chen Zhao

Externally bonded carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) materials are well suited to the rehabilitation and reinforcement of civil engineering structures due to their high specific strength, specific stiffness and corrosion resistance. To probe the fatigue behavior of CFRP strengthened concrete structures, three point bending experiments of reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened with carbon fibre laminate (CFL) under constant amplitude loading were performed. The histories of midspan flexibility and bending stiffness of strengthened beams were recorded automatically. And the linear curve between fatigue strength and the logarithm of fatigue life was obtained. The failure modes go through concrete cracking, CFL debonding from concrete and steel bars yielding and fracture with increasing cycles of fatigue loading. Bonded CFL increases the ductility of strengthened RC beam and results in dense distribution of cracks compared with normal RC beam, and it’s bending stiffness at damage state as well. The fatigue damage evolvement shows three stages of nucleation, steady expansion and failure. Then the failure mechanism was studied and a cumulative damage model was proposed to describe the fatigue damage and fracture process of CFL strengthened RC beams under constant amplitude loading.


Author(s):  
Yan-Hui Zhang ◽  
Stephen Maddox

In service the great majority of structures and components are subjected to stresses of variable amplitude (VA). The fatigue design of welded joints in such structures is based on fatigue data obtained under constant amplitude loading, used in conjunction with a cumulative damage rule to estimate the damage introduced by cycles of varying magnitude in the service stress history. There are two major concerns with fatigue design of deepwater steel catenary risers (SCRs): the validity of cumulative damage rule and the damaging effect of stresses below the constant amplitude fatigue limit (CAFL). It is known that SCRs can experience very high numbers of low stress cycles due to vortex induced vibration (VIV) with the result that the choice of method for accounting for the fatigue damage due to stresses below the constant amplitude fatigue limit can be highly significant in terms of the estimated fatigue life. These two fundamental issues have been addressed in a recent group sponsored project. By successfully establishing a loading spectrum representative of that experienced by risers and developing the testing procedures for VA loading using the resonance testing rigs, the fatigue performance of full-scale girth welded pipes under VA loading were investigated. These loading spectra had the same peak/maximum stress histograms but different minimum stresses. Many tests lasted over 108 cycles to investigate the fatigue damage of small stresses in these spectra. This paper describes the development of the method by which fatigue testing of full-scale girth welded pipes under VA loading had been successfully performed.


2015 ◽  
Vol 830-831 ◽  
pp. 413-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raghu V. Prakash ◽  
Deepika Sudevan

Carbon fibre composites used in many safety-critical applications experience damage due to operating environment such as bird strike, hailstorm etc., In some cases, the damage is barely visible and its presence in the structure can cause accelerated damage leading to catastrophic failure. In this paper, the results of fatigue damage progression in woven CFRP laminate subjected to constant amplitude loading for un-impacted specimens as well as impacted specimens are presented. The stiffness of the specimens was periodically monitored during fatigue testing to arrive at the rate of damage progression. Special experiments were carried out under a programmed version of an equivalent fighter aircraft loading – FALSTAFF (Fighter Aircraft Loading Standard for Fatigue and Fracture) and it was observed that the damage progression is slower in case of spectrum loading compared to constant amplitude loading. The effect of load sequencing on damage is investigated in this paper.


2012 ◽  
Vol 446-449 ◽  
pp. 780-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zu Lie Wu ◽  
Sheng Jing ◽  
Jun Mei Liu

In this paper, in combination with the specific conditions of light rail traffic volume, fatigue load spectrum parameters of light rail support are to be determined by background project light rail line 3 of Chongqing Caiyuanba Yangtze Bridge, through which the internal force history is then calculated. Three million constant amplitude fatigue loads that the test needs are finally determined through linear fatigue damage cumulative theory.


2013 ◽  
Vol 787 ◽  
pp. 829-832
Author(s):  
Hong Bing Zhu ◽  
Bo Xia ◽  
Yao Zhao

Fatigue damage is the RC beam bridge is facing a big problem, for the RC beam bridge fatigue tests and fatigue cumulative damage theory research is very meaningful. Summarizes the research achievements of the RC beam bridge fatigue test, from constant amplitude fatigue, luffing fatigue and stochastic fatigue, etc, are discussed in this paper. Analyses the existing linear, nonlinear and probability fatigue cumulative damage theory and its applicable conditions, advantages and disadvantages. RC fatigue tests were discussed and the problems that exist in the fatigue cumulative damage theory research.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fangping Liu ◽  
Jianting Zhou

Concrete fatigue strain evolution plays a very important role in the evaluation of the material properties of concrete. To study fatigue strain and fatigue damage of concrete in reinforced concrete beams under constant amplitude bending fatigue loading, constant amplitude bending fatigue experiments with reinforced concrete beams with rectangular sections were first carried out in the laboratory. Then, by analyzing the shortcomings and limitations of existing fatigue strain evolution equations, the level-S nonlinear evolution model of fatigue strain was constructed, and the physical meaning of the parameters was discussed. Finally, the evolution of fatigue strain and fatigue damage of concrete in the compression zone of the experimental beam was analyzed based on the level-S nonlinear evolution model. The results show that, initially, fatigue strain grows rapidly. In the middle stages, fatigue strain is nearly a linear change. Because the experimental data for the third stage are relatively scarce, the evolution of the strain therefore degenerated into two phases. The model has strong adaptability and high accuracy and can reflect the evolution of fatigue strain. The fatigue damage evolution expression based on fatigue strain shows that fatigue strain and fatigue damage have similar variations, and, with the same load cycles, the greater the load level, the larger the damage, in line with the general rules of damage.


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