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Fatigue Crack Propagation

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Fatigue and Fracture of Fibre Metal Laminates

Part of the book series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications ((SMIA,volume 236))

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This chapter explains the fatigue damage growth phenomena in FMLs, and provides theories to describe the growth of damage based on the individual fracture phenomena. The validity of various geometrical correction factors is discussed. The different crack geometries through-thickness and the crack paths, observed in FMLs, are explained for both in-axis and off-axis loading. Finally, the relation between variable amplitude and constant amplitude loading is covered.

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    Recently, Jones et al. [38] emphasized that most damage tolerance analyses focus on naturally occurring cracks for which the common macroscopic crack growth data for monolithic metals are also deemed inappropriate.

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Alderliesten, R. (2017). Fatigue Crack Propagation. In: Fatigue and Fracture of Fibre Metal Laminates. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 236. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56227-8_9

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