Fatigue behaviour of glass-fibre-reinforced polymers: numerical and experimental characterisation

This work presents a novel numerical methodology to model the degradation and failure of composite materials like GFRP submitted to monotonic and high cycle fatigue loads. This is done by using the Serial–Parallel Rule of Mixtures homogenisation technique together with a proper mechanical characteri...

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Autores: Alcayde Romo, Bárbara, Merzkirch, Matthias, Cornejo Velázquez, Alejandro|||0000-0002-5157-742X, Jiménez Reyes, Sergio|||0000-0001-7982-2725, Marklund, Eric, Barbu, Lucia Gratiela|||0000-0002-3542-4853
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/407207
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/407207
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2024.118057
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Reinforced concrete
Composite material
High cycle fatigue
Serial–parallel rule of mixtures
Fracture mechanics
Finite element method
Formigó armat
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Materials i estructures::Materials i estructures de formigó
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Sumario:This work presents a novel numerical methodology to model the degradation and failure of composite materials like GFRP submitted to monotonic and high cycle fatigue loads. This is done by using the Serial–Parallel Rule of Mixtures homogenisation technique together with a proper mechanical characterisation of the constituent materials of the composite. This paper also proposes an efficient way of estimating the fatigue properties of each of the material constituents (fibre or matrix) to comply with the experimental results obtained at composite level; this enables to estimate the fatigue strength of any stacking/orientation of fibres with only one mechanical characterisation of the material properties. A comparison of the results obtained analytically and experimentally for GFRP is presented. The results show the applicability and accuracy of the proposed methodology in this field.