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Construction Engineering: Fatigue life prediction of adhesively bonded textile composites

2015
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A number of construction engineering applications for textiles made of composite materials are presented in this chapter. All these structures were fabricated by connecting several subcomponents, usually by using adhesives. Although composite materials are designated to be fatigue-insensitive, especially when compared to metallic ones, they also suffer from fatigue loads. The aim of this chapter is to present the different types of adhesively bonded connections between textile fiber-reinforced polymer composite materials in construction engineering and the description of the available methods for the life modeling and prediction of their fatigue life.

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2015
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Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/bd9bf6da-5082-4534-a05b-425c0621398c

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Composite material

A composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material which is produced from two or more constituent materials. These constituent materials have notably dissimilar chemical or physical properties and are merged to create a material with properties unlike the individual elements. Within the finished structure, the individual elements remain separate and distinct, distinguishing composites from mixtures and solid solutions.

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In materials science, fatigue is the initiation and propagation of cracks in a material due to cyclic loading. Once a fatigue crack has initiated, it grows a small amount with each loading cycle, typically producing striations on some parts of the fracture surface. The crack will continue to grow until it reaches a critical size, which occurs when the stress intensity factor of the crack exceeds the fracture toughness of the material, producing rapid propagation and typically complete fracture of the structure.

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