The fatigue loading is the proximate factor leading to the performances degradation of the
Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites and structures, which detrimentally …

An overview is given of the development of methods for the prediction of fatigue driven
delamination growth over the past 40 years. Four categories of methods are identified …

A comprehensive review is conducted on the very high cycle (VHC) and gigacycle (GC)
fatigue of fiber-reinforced composite materials. The main objective was to conduct a …

The high cycle fatigue behaviour of autoclave-cured carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP)
composite gears is investigated. The CFRP gears were milled from a composite plate and …

The matrix-dominated behaviour of unidirectional composite laminae subjected to multiaxial
fatigue loading was extensively investigated. Tubular specimens with three different lay-up …

The delamination growth represents one of the main phenomena involved in the fatigue
damage evolution in composite laminates. With the aim of characterising qualitatively and …

Carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP) are more and more used for high performance
applications such as aircraft structures. These structural components are subjected with …

Composite materials have emerged as an effective substitute for conventional materials in
various fields of engineering and structural science. For replacement of regular metals …

The self-heating effect can be considered as a catastrophic phenomenon that occurs in
polymers and polymer–matrix composites (PMCs) subjected to fatigue loading or vibrations …

The conventional extended finite element method (XFEM) usually suffers from the crack tip
enrichment for removing the blending elements. This may be inconvenient when treating the …