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A woven carbon/epoxy composite was subjected to fatigue crack growth under mixed Mode-I/Mode-II loading to obtain crack growth behavior at different cyclic strain energies. Owing to the woven structure of the material, pure Mode-II fracture is usually a difficult proposition because of friction, interference, and interlock of woven tows in adjacent plies at an interlaminar crack. These limitations were overcome by the use of a novel form of mixed Mode-I/Mode-II specimen, which imposes sufficient crack surface opening (Mode-I) to alleviate ply–ply interactions, but not so much as to obscure the sliding (Mode-II) response. Comparison with pure Mode-I fatigue crack growth data, in conjunction with a fracture interaction criterion, provided a means to extract the Mode-II behavior.
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The work described here was sponsored by the Department of Energy, with the Ford Motor Company as a prime contractor.
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Fenner, J.S., Daniel, I.M. (2017). Mixed-Mode and Mode-II Fatigue Crack Growth in Woven Composites. In: Zehnder, A., et al. Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 8. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42195-7_10
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