DOI: 10.1177/002199837300700404 ISSN:

A Fatigue Failure Criterion for Fiber Reinforced Materials

Z. Hashin, A. Rotem
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Ceramics and Composites

A simple fatigue failure criterion for unidirectionally fiber reinforced laminae under oscillatory states of combined plane stress has been es tablished. The criterion is expressed in terms of three S-N curves which are easily obtained from fatigue testing of off-axis unidirectional specimens under uniaxial oscillatory load. An extensive series of tests have demonstrated good agreement of the failure criterion with experimental data.

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