Author : PC. Chou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Book Synopsis Degradation and Sudden-Death Models of Fatigue of Graphite/Epoxy Composites by : PC. Chou
Download or read book Degradation and Sudden-Death Models of Fatigue of Graphite/Epoxy Composites written by PC. Chou and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed approach to the degradation and sudden-death models of residual strength is presented. The models were used to predict the residual strength of six sets of experimental data of graphite/epoxy composites. The adequacy of these models was investigated with the use of hypothesis testing and through the study of the weakest residual strength specimens. Both models did a good job in predicting mean residual strength but were overly restrictive in predicting the strength of the weakest specimens. The decrease in residual strength was observed to be less for unidirectional composites than for composites of general layup.