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Fatigue Degradation and Life Prediction of Glass Fabric Polymer Composite under Tension/Torsion Biaxial Loadings

Toru J. Fujii

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Doshisha University, Kyoto 610-03, Japan

Yusuke Morita

Murata Machinery Ltd., Kyoto 610, Japan

Fatigue degradation and life prediction for a plain woven glass fabric reinforced polyester under tension/torsion biaxial loadings were investigated. Typical S-N diagrams were given at several biaxial ratios when the biaxial cyclic loads were proportionally applied to the specimens. A fatigue damage accumulation model based on the continuum damage mechanics theory was developed, where modulus decay ratios in tension and shear were used as indicators for damage variables D. In the model, the damage variables are considered to be second-order tensors. Then, the maximum principal damage variable, D* is introduced. According to the similarity to the principal stress, D* is obtained as the maximum eigenvalue of damage tensor [D']. Under proportional tension/torsion loadings, fatigue lives were satisfactorily predicted at any biaxial stress ratios using the present model in which the fatigue characteristics only under uniaxial tension and pure torsion loadings were needed. For a certain biaxial stress ratio, the effect of loading path on the fatigue strength was examined. The experimental result does not show a strong effect of loading path on the fatigue life.

Key Words: GFRP • fatigue • fatigue life prediction • biaxial loading • loading paths • continuum damage mechanics • modulus decay ratio • biaxial stress ratio

Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, Vol. 15, No. 2, 183-195 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/073168449601500204


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