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Previous work has shown that, under some circumstances, failure of polymer-matrix fiber composites under bending fatigue loading can transition from compressive/local buckling failure to tensile/fiber fracture failure. For low cycle fatigue, failure tends to be compressive in nature and can be modeled based on kink band theory. For high cycle fatigue, failure tends to be tensile and can be modeled based on a fatigue damage/wear-out model. In this work, we investigate the effect of load ratio on the transition from low cycle/compressive failure to high cycle/tensile failure for a unidirectional polyester/glass fiber composite. The stiffness degradation of the beams under changing loading conditions is also investigated.
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Rasheduzzaman, M., Cavalli, M.N. (2015). Failure Mode Transition in Fiber Composite Fatigue. In: Carroll, J., Daly, S. (eds) Fracture, Fatigue, Failure, and Damage Evolution, Volume 5. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06977-7_22
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