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Fatigue Life Prediction for Polymeric Composite Materials Subjected to Bending Loads at Elevated Temperatures

C. A. Mahieux, J. Jackson, S.W. Case and S. Pipik

Quasi-static and cyclic bending experiments have been performed on unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic matrix composites. End-loaded dynamic data are reported for the first time in the present paper. An attempt has been made to systematically separate the effects of temperature and cyclic loading. A model was establish to enable the life prediction of the composite under combined fatigue and thermal loads. The incremental MRLifeTM philosophy was used to predict elevated temperature bending fatigue from elevated temperature quasi-static bending (stress rupture) and room temperature bending fatigue data. Encouraging results have been obtain for temperatures below the glass transition temperature of the material.