New Flex Fatigue Tester for Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite

Abstract

Textile materials are widely used in the industrial textiles. The yarn and fabric fatigue are not easily prearranged hence, in most cases the apparatuses used for applying cyclic loading under flex fatigue conditions will affect only one section of the yarn and fabric and the results will depend on the level of heterogeneity of the tested material. The common methods of flex fatigue testing are to pull the tested specimen, hold under tension, backward and forward over a fixed roller or grip one end of the specimen while its free end is bent so, the specimen element is alternated between straight and bent form. The new suggested principle is the fixation of the yarns or fabrics in the internal part of rubber tire wheel and pressing it by the pressure of internal rubber tube with the external wheel under predetermined load to give the required bending deformation on the specimen. The theoretical calculation of the design indicates that the testing specimen is subjected to pure bending. In this work, a setup was built up and several types of the technical yarns, fabrics, as well as flexible composites, were tested.it was proves the degradations of the material under the flex fatigue. .