Fatigue Test of Carbon Fiber Used in Repair and

Reinforcement on Crack
Yanghou Chen

Guoming Chen

College of Mechanical & Electronic Engineering

Wei Fang University
Wei Fang, China
chenyanghou@126.com

College of Mechanical & Electronic Engineering

China University of Petroleum (East China)
Dongying, China

AbstractMore and more attention are paid to using carbon

fiber compound materials in maintenance and repair of offshore
structure. In this paper, we focus on a test of carbon fiber used in
repair and reinforcement on crack. This will be followed by a
description of the experiment. Two kinds of specimens are
provided for the test which are cut in different crack. One kind of
specimens are unwrapped, the other kind of them are strengthen
by carbon fiber. For the sake of contrast, the same crack are cut
in specimens of unwrapped and strengthen. Infrared
photography instrument and acoustic emission instrument are
used for test data acquisition and processing. Details on the test
are discussed in later and some interesting results of the
reinforcement of carbon fiber are obtained..
Keywords-carbon fiber compound; maintenance and repair; crack;
fatigue test

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