A novel and robust method to quantify fatigue damage in fibre composite materials using thermal imagine analysis

Martin A. Eder, Ali Sarhadi, Xiao Chen*

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    Abstract

    This work proposes a novel and robust thermal imaging-based method suitable to quantify damage evolution stages in fibre-reinforced composite materials under fatigue loading. The method uses adiabatic hysteretic heating of the material to calculate the change of enthalpy by thermal imaging when the material undergoes fatigue damage. This work analytically corroborates the validity of using the calculated change of enthalpy to identify the three different fundamental fatigue damage stages of the material. The method is applied to two different types of notched sandwich specimens subject to constant amplitude fatigue loading. It is practically demonstrated that the characteristic curve progressions of the mechanically measured hysteretic dissipation curves are in good agreement with those of the enthalpy change computed by the proposed method.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number106326
    JournalInternational Journal of Fatigue
    Volume150
    Number of pages8
    ISSN0142-1123
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2021

    Keywords

    • Fibre composite materials
    • Hysteric energy dissipation
    • Fatigue damage
    • Thermal imaging
    • Enthalpy

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