ANALYSING THE FATIGUE LIFE ON WOVEN GLASS FIBER / EPOXY POLYMER COMPOSITE LAMINATE

Authors

  • Somesh Singh Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Alpha college of Engineering, Bangalore, India
  • Rajesh. N Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Alpha college of Engineering, Bangalore, India
  • Mahesh UG Student Department of Mechanical Engineering Alpha college of Engineering, Bangalore, India
  • Prem Kumar UG Student Department of Mechanical Engineering Alpha college of Engineering, Bangalore, India

Keywords:

Composites, Fatigue life, Epoxy polymer, Woven glass.

Abstract

The impact damage and fatigue life is inter-linked in this work. The laminates were prepared by hand layup process having two different thicknesses; 2 and 4 mm. The specimens were subject to low-velocity impact at different energy levels (7.85, 15.7 and 23.54 Joules). The 2 mm thick laminates experienced higher deflection and the absorbed energy was low, when compared to 4 mm thick laminates. The fatigue test was conducted for both impacted and non-impacted laminates, by keeping the stress ratio, R value at 0.1 and frequency at 3 Hz. The results indicate that the impact velocity is very much influential on the fatigue life of composite laminate.  Further the results indicate that the fatigue life of the 2 mm thick impacted laminates was drastically reduced. A comparative study is also attempted to understand the behaviour of impacted laminates subjected to fatigue loading.

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Published

2017-06-05

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 6 (2017): Vol 3 Issue 6 June 2017

Section

Articles

How to Cite

ANALYSING THE FATIGUE LIFE ON WOVEN GLASS FIBER / EPOXY POLYMER COMPOSITE LAMINATE. (2017). International Journal of Engineering Research and Advanced Technology (ijerat) (E-ISSN 2454-6135) , 3(6), 42-47. https://ijerat.com/index.php/ijerat/article/view/238