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Fatigue crack propagation behavior at a notch for needled C/SiC composite under tension-tension loading

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Fatigue test of a needled C/SiC composite with a notch under tension-tension cyclic loading was completed, and the main fatigue crack propagation curve of the needled composite was obtained by the in situ observation of the fatigue process. By analyzing the influence of the failure number and distribution on the tensile loading subjected by 0° fiber bundles, the relationship between the main fatigue crack propagation and the distribution of 0° fiber bundles in the needled composite was established. By observing the fracture microstructure (especially the distribution of 0° fiber bundles) of the needled composite through scanning electron microscopy, the reasons for the varying fatigue resistance of different notched specimens were also explained. In addition, acoustic emission (AE) was also used to analyze the AE energy characteristics during the fatigue crack propagation process of the needled composite.

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Abbreviations

σ m :

Nominal stress

F :

Maximum value of cyclic tensile force

w :

Width of the composite specimen

t :

Thickness of the composite specimen

K ub :

Loading unbalanced factor

T max :

Tensile force on the 0° fiber bundle nearest to the crack

T avg :

Average tensile force of fiber bundle with bearing capacity

τ :

Shear stress between matrix and fiber bundle

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This investigation was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51535001).

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    Geng Hou, De-Guang Shang, Ming Xia, Yi-Er Guo, Xiang Yin & Shao-Dong Wu

  2. Shenyang Aircraft Design & Research Institute, Aviation Industry Corporation of China Ltd., Shenyang, 110035, China

    Lin-Xuan Zuo & Lin-Feng Qu

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Geng Hou is a Ph.D. candidate in Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing at Beijing University of Technology, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. His main research direction is the fatigue strength theory of composite materials.

De-Guang Shang is a Professor at the Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing at Beijing University of Technology in China. He received Ph.D. degree from Northeastern University, China, in 1997. His main areas of research interest are fatigue, fracture, and durability of structures.

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Hou, G., Shang, DG., Zuo, LX. et al. Fatigue crack propagation behavior at a notch for needled C/SiC composite under tension-tension loading. J Mech Sci Technol 36, 167–177 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-021-1215-7

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