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Statistical lifetime of composites subjected to random and ordered block loadings
  • Alberto D'Amore,
  • Luigi Grassia
Alberto D'Amore
Universita degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli Dipartimento di Ingegneria

Corresponding Author:alberto.damore@unicampania.it

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Luigi Grassia
Universita degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli Dipartimento di Ingegneria
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Abstract

This study presents a procedure based on constant amplitude (CA) fatigue data to predict the statistical fatigue lifetime of glass/orthopolyester composites subjected to repeated ordered and random two, three, and six sequences of block loadings. A numerical routine was developed to detect cycle-by-cycle the statistical strength degradation progression until failure, assuming that the strength at the end of a block cycle equals the strength at the start of the successive one and that the individual samples’ static strength, residual strength, and fatigue life share the same rank in their respective cumulative distribution function. Predictions conform to the statistically undetectable loading sequence effects and lightly overestimate the lifetimes of random and ordered high-to-low (1/100 cycles) repeated two-block loadings. The vanishing effect of the loading sequence when the block extents remain fixed, the block extent effects for a given three-block sequence, and the lifetimes of three-block loadings were fully predicted. The six-block sequence’s experimental lifetimes with different block loading orders and block extent fell within the predicted lifetimes’ cumulative distribution function. A reliable damage rule based on residual strength was proposed and compared to the Miner’s rule.
25 Jul 2024Submitted to Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures
28 Jul 2024Submission Checks Completed
28 Jul 2024Assigned to Editor
01 Aug 2024Reviewer(s) Assigned
16 Sep 2024Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
24 Sep 2024Editorial Decision: Revise Major
02 Oct 20241st Revision Received
04 Oct 2024Submission Checks Completed
04 Oct 2024Assigned to Editor
04 Oct 2024Reviewer(s) Assigned
05 Oct 2024Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending