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Statistical Assessment of Tensile Static, Creep and Fatigue Strengths for Unidirectional CFRP

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Background

The tensile strength along the longitudinal direction of unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRPs) constitutes important data for the reliable design of CFRP structures. Our earlier reports proposed the formulations for the statistical static, creep, and fatigue strengths of CFRP based on Christensen’s model of the viscoelastic crack kinetics.

Objective

This study is concerned with the statistical assessment of the tensile static, creep, and fatigue strengths of unidirectional CFRPs by using the proposed formulations and the characterization of the long-term strengths of unidirectional CFRPs.

Method

First, the proposed formulations for the time-dependent and temperature-dependent statistical static, creep, and fatigue strengths of CFRP are introduced. Second, the tensile static, creep and fatigue strengths of unidirectional CFRP are measured statistically at various temperatures using resin-impregnated CFRP strands as tensile test specimens by measuring the viscoelasticity of the matrix resin. Finally, the master curves showing the long-term life of these strengths are constructed by substituting these measured data into the formulations.

Results

The results clarify that the formulations are applicable with high reliability over wide ranges of time and temperature for the statistical tensile static, creep and fatigue strengths of unidirectional CFRP except above the glass transition temperature of the matrix resin. Therefore, the fatigue strength degradation phenomena of unidirectional CFRPs can be expressed by the time- and temperature-dependent part due to the viscoelastic behavior of the matrix resin and the number of load cycle-dependent parts.

Conclusions

The long-term life prediction of unidirectional CFRPs under static, creep and fatigue tension loadings can be determined by ascertaining the mechanical properties of the CFRP and matrix resin in the proposed formulations.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Professor Richard Christensen of Stanford University as a consultant on these projects. The authors also thank the supplier of carbon fibers, Toray Industries Inc., and many students of the Kanazawa Institute of Technology as cooperative researchers.

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  1. Materials System Research Laboratory, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, 3-1 Yatsukaho Hakusan, Ishikawa, 924-0838, Japan

    Y. Miyano & M. Nakada

  2. Graduate School, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, 7-1 Ohgigaoka Nonoichi, Ishikawa, 921-8501, Japan

    S. Kageta

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Miyano, Y., Nakada, M. & Kageta, S. Statistical Assessment of Tensile Static, Creep and Fatigue Strengths for Unidirectional CFRP. Exp Mech 61, 1171–1179 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11340-021-00711-y

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