Fatigue of Textile Composites

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Woodhead Publishing Series in Composites Science and Engineering

Preface

Part One. Concepts and methods

1. A conceptual framework for studies of durability in composite materials

1.1. Introduction and background

1.2. Fundamentals of material durability

1.3. A conceptual framework for fatigue durability

1.4. Extension of the baseline fatigue life diagram to laminates and other fiber architectures

1.5. Models for fatigue life prediction

1.6. Concluding remarks

2. The cycle jump concept for modelling high-cycle fatigue in composite materials

2.1. Introduction

2.2. What are phenomenological residual stiffness models?

2.3. The cycle jump concept

2.4. Finite element implementation of ...