A review of advances in fatigue and life prediction of fiber-reinforced composites

Abstract

This contribution is an attempt to provide a thorough review of past and current research work on fatigue and life prediction of fiber-reinforced composites. In order to summarize and present a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art published works, the reviews in this contribution are broadly summarized into four groups of review;(1) fatigue of fiber-reinforced composites, (2) composite damage mechanism, (3) composite failure criteria and, (4) composite fatigue modeling and life prediction. The review will begin with a discussion of inherent and environmental factors affecting the fatigue of composites. This is followed by a rather extensive description of the composite damage mechanism and a summary of commonly used failure criteria for life prediction. And towards the end, models and methods for fatigue and life prediction of composites are summarized and discussed.

Fatigue models for woven textile composite laminates

“…It is important to note that only models that have been specifically applied to textile composites have been taken into consideration. For a review of fatigue models for composites in general, the reader is referred to Degrieck and Van Paepegem (2001), or more recently, Wicaksono and Chai (2013).…”

Flexural fatigue damage analyses of recycled rubber‐modified epoxy‐based composites reinforced with alumina fibres

“…The evaluation of the fatigue behaviour of the composites can be done numerically or experimentally. Some researchers performed numerical studies that can be classified into three major categories as fatigue life models, phenomenological models, and progressive damage models . Amongst these models, progressive damage model is considered as the most advanced and consistent model.…”

Life prediction of woven CFRP structure subject to static and fatigue loading

“…There were already several published works on the static and fatigue response of woven composites prior to this work, a review of the literature on related researches was presented recently [2]. Curtis [3] discussed on the response of laminated woven composite under reversed axial cyclic loading and compared it with that of equivalent non-woven composite laminates.…”

“…There were also several attempts to model fatigue in composites. There are currently three main groups of composite fatigue models [2]: fatigue life, phenomenological and progressive damage models. Fig.…”