Fatigue in Composites
Science, Damage Mechanics, and Design Applications
- 2nd Edition - June 5, 2025
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Editor: Marino Quaresimin
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 2 8 8 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 2 8 9 - 9
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Request a sales quoteFatigue in Composites: Science, Damage Mechanics, and Design Applications, Second Edition, provides an authoritative review of the current knowledge on the fatigue behavior of polymeric composites. It covers, in detail, a wide range of different problems encountered by designers in the automotive, marine, and structural engineering industries. Divided over three sections, the first section of chapters is designed to illustrate the advances in the investigation methodologies and the response of different composites under cyclic loadings, with special emphasis on damage mechanisms. The second section presents more advanced topics, such as the response of materials under in-service or extreme conditions, as well as theoretical developments and damage-based modeling approaches. In the third and final section, industrial cases and applications in different fields of engineering are discussed.
Leading scientists from academia and industry have prepared the different chapters. Particular care has been devoted to coordinating the content, style, and philosophy behind the various chapters with the central aim to provide a consistent and coherent approach. Several new topics have been included that were not available in the first edition, in view of the recent advances, such as the availability of new investigation techniques and the development of new areas of activity. Particular emphasis has been given to the damage mechanics of composites subjected to fatigue loading, which is discussed from several different points of view: experimental investigation techniques, modeling approaches, and damage-based design procedures. Several other innovative topics include certification issues, the effects of processing and manufacturing-induced defects on the fatigue response, and structural health monitoring strategies and methods.
This book is an essential reference resource for academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists, and engineers working on the design, analysis, and manufacture of composite material systems in various industrial sectors, including aerospace, automotive, marine, offshore, civil, and space.
- Provides a detailed understanding of the response of composite materials and structures under fatigue loading
- Particular emphasis is given to the damage mechanics of composites subjected to fatigue loading and to the strategies for the development of damage-based modelling and design
- Features advanced and innovative experimental investigation techniques, modeling approaches, and damage-based design procedures
Academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists and engineers working in the design, analysis and manufacture of composite material systems in various industrial sectors including aerospace, automotive, marine, offshore , civil and space
1. Introduction
Part I – INTRODUCTORY TOPICS
2. Damage and Long-term Performances of UD Reinforced Composites Under Fatigue
3. Fatigue Testing for Composite Materials
4. Recent Techniques for Advanced Damage Mechanics Investigation
5. Off-axis Cracking Under Fatigue
6. Delamination and Interlaminar Response Under Fatigue
7. Fiber Dominated Fatigue Failure
8. Fatigue of Textile Composites
9. Fatigue of Short Fiber Composites
10. Fatigue of Continuous Fiber Reinforced thermoplastic composites
Part II – ADVANCED TOPICS
11. Defect Severity Considerations in Fatigue of Composite Materials
12. Effects of Media and Aggressive Environments on Fatigue of Composites: Humid and Thermal Ageing
13. Fatigue at Very High Cycles
14. Overview on the Existing Approaches for Life Predictions Methodologies and Modelling of Fatigue Response
15. Damage Based Modelling of Fatigue Response of composites
16. Fatigue Damage Considerations in Certification of Composite Structures
17. Structural Health Monitoring of Fatigue Degradation in Fibre Reinforced Polymers
18. Fatigue of Composites for Wind Turbines
19. Fatigue of Composites in Rotorcraft Applications: Industry Practice
20. Fatigue of Fibre Reinforced Marine Structures
21. Fatigue of Composite Bonded Joints
- Edition: 2
- Published: June 5, 2025
- No. of pages (Paperback): 728
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128212882
- eBook ISBN: 9780128212899
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Marino Quaresimin
Marino Quaresimin is Professor of Machine Design in the Department of Management and Engineering at the University of Padova, Italy.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Machine Design, Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padova, Italy