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Accelerated Testing for Long-Term Durability of Various FRP Laminates for Marine Use

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The prediction of long-term fatigue life of various FRP laminates combined with resins, fibers and fabrics for marine use under temperature and water environments were performed by our developed accelerated testing methodology based on the time-temperature superposition principle (TTSP). The base material of five kinds of FRP laminates employed in this study was plain fabric CFRP laminates T300 carbon fibers/vinylester (T300/VE). The first selection of FRP laminate to T300/VE was the combinations of different fabrics, that is flat yarn plain fabric T700 carbon fibers/vinylester (T700/VE-F) and multi-axial knitted T700 carbon fibers/vinylester (T700/VE-K) for marine use and the second selection of FRP laminates to T300/VE was the combinations with different fibers and matrix resin, that is plain fabric T300 carbon fibers/epoxy (T300/EP) and plain fabric E-glass fibers/vinylester (E-glass/VE). These five kinds of FRP laminates were prepared under three water absorption conditions of Dry, Wet and Wet C Dry after molding. The three-point bending constant strain rate (CSR) tests for these FRP laminates at three conditions of water absorption were carried out at various temperatures and strain rates. Furthermore, the three-point bending fatigue tests for these specimens were carried out at various temperatures and frequencies. The flexural CSR and fatigue strengths of these five kinds of FRP laminates strongly depend on water absorption as well as time and temperature. The mater curves of fatigue strength as well as CSR strength for these FRP laminates at three water absorption conditions are constructed by using the test data based on TTSP. It is possible to predict the long term fatigue life for these FRP laminates under an arbitrary temperature and water absorption conditions by using the master curves.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank the Office of Naval Research for supporting this work through an ONR award (N000140110949) with Dr. Yapa Rajapakse as the program manager of solid mechanics. The authors thank Professor Richard Christensen at Stanford University as the consultant of this project and Toray Industries, Inc. as the supplier of CFRP laminates. All of experimental data were measured by the staffs and graduate students of author's laboratory, Kanazawa Institute of Technology. The authors thank these staffs and graduate students, Dr. Naoyuki Sekine, Dr. Junji Noda, Mrs. Kumiko Saito, Ms. Jun Ichimura, Mr. Eiji Hayakawa and Mr. Takahito Uozu.

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  2. Dept. of Civil Engineering Lab. for Applied Mechanics, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, 67100, Greece

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Miyano, Y., Nakada, M. (2009). Accelerated Testing for Long-Term Durability of Various FRP Laminates for Marine Use. In: Daniel, I.M., Gdoutos, E.E., Rajapakse, Y.D.S. (eds) Major Accomplishments in Composite Materials and Sandwich Structures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3141-9_1

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