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Since the dominant fracture mechanism of carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) laminates in most cases is delamination along the interface of prepregs, a fracture mechanics approach to the delamination crack growth is required to assure the integrity of structures and machine components made of CFRP. Since structures and machine components are usually subjected to cyclic or variable loading conditions, information about the delamination behaviour under cyclic loading is particularly important. Most of the fatigue crack growth tests on CFRP were conducted under constant load range tests or load shedding tests, which have been widely employed for fracture mechanics approaches to fatigue crack growth experiments of metallic materials [1–6]. The delamination fatigue crack growth of CFRP, however, is not always controlled by the stress intensity range, ΔK, because of the existence of fiber bridging. Therefore, delamination crack growth rate is not always a unique function of the stress intensity range, ΔK [7].
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Nakai, Y. (1996). Effect of Temperature Change on Delamination Crack Growth of Unidirectional CFRP under Cyclic Loading. In: Bressers, J., Rémy, L., Steen, M., Vallés, J.L. (eds) Fatigue under Thermal and Mechanical Loading: Mechanisms, Mechanics and Modelling. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8636-8_30
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