Summary of review articles on Study the effect of impact damage on fatigue characterization

Method Material and

Date Title Objective Loads Conclusion
type specimen
2006 Fatigue life prediction for Presents the fatigue 2-stage The theoretical analyses are well in
impacted carbon/epoxy behavior of Experimental tensile conformance with the experimental results for
Carbon/
laminates under 2-stage carbon/epoxy study loading the residual life as well as for the cumulative
epoxy
loading laminates with (proposed damage.
composite
impact-induced Empirical
laminates
damage under 2- Equation)
stage tensile loading
2006 Prediction of fatigue damage Identify a correlation Impact & The final goal of this research is to
for composite laminate using between fatigue Cycle load provide useful tool for detecting the
impact response damage showing as
stiffness degradation damage in composite structures
Carbon-
and the Experimental
fiber/Epoxy
corresponding impact and numerical
composite
response study
laminates
(provide useful tool
for detecting the
damage in composite
structures)
2008 An experimental study of Evaluate The Repeated The resistance to the impulsive force was
damage accumulation in behavior of balanced Experimental impact found to be influenced by the stacking
balanced CFRP laminates laminates under study sequence and the crack path through the
CFRP
due to repeated impact repeated low energy (proposed laminate.
plate
Empirical The symmetric plate with different ply
Equation) directions proved to have best resistance to
impact.
2009 The response of aluminum Evaluation of the low Impact & In fatiguing unimpacted bonded GLARE
/GLARE hybrid materials to velocity impact Experimental Cycle load reductions in crack growth rate up to a factor
FML
impact and to in-plane behavior and the to study the of 5 were observed. After the impact, the
plate
fatigue post-impact fatigue behavior retardation effect was a factor of 2.
behavior of FML
2010 Evaluation of impact fatigue Determine the Repeated Damage parameter D is based on the
damage in glass/epoxy response of low-velocity evaluation of the loss of material bending
Experimental Glass/epoxy
composite laminate glass/epoxy cross ply impact stiffness and evolution of damage parameter
to study the composite
laminates to repeated is given versus number of impacts.
behavior laminate
low-velocity impact Delamination has been found as the main
factor of increasing of damage parameter.

2011 Compression fatigue
properties of z-pinned quasi-
isotropic carbon/epoxy
laminate with barely visible
impact damage
2012 Monitoring of multiaxial
fatigue damage evolution in
impacted composite tubes
using non-destructive
evaluation
2013 Damage modelling of
Impact crater participate less to this
increase at the beginning of live duration but
has greater influence on D parameter
evolution at the end.
Experimental results indicate that the
damage evolution versus number of impacts
can be represented by S shape curve and
thus indicates the importance of the first
impacts.
Using the z-pins to Impact & The study investigates the effect of
improve the Compression increasing volume content of z-pins (up to
compression fatigue fatigue 4%) on the barely visible impact damage
properties of quasi- resistance, post-impact compression fatigue
isotropic carbon properties, and fatigue damage mechanisms
fiberepoxy Carbon of a quasi-isotropic carbonepoxy material.
composite after Experimental epoxy The study reveals new insights into the
impact study laminate+ z- impact damage resistance of z-pinned
pins composites.
Z-pins were effective at improving the
fatigue performance of the composite with
high energy BVID.
fatigue endurance limit increasing with the
pin content.
Evolution of Damage The stiffness behavior is also
in wound glass fibre divided into three stages: rapid
reinforced tubes due
to impact and decrease triggered
subsequent biaxial by matrix cracking within the first
cyclic loading Impact 1020% of fatigue life (phase I),
Experimental
E-glass fiber
& followed by a weak quasi-linear
to study the
tube
cyclic decrease (phase II) and rapid
behavior multiaxial
decrease caused by fiber ruptures
loading
till catastrophic failure (phase III).
Multiaxially fatigue loaded
composites show similar fatigue
behavior and damage mechanisms
Proposed a life time Experimental Square FRP Repeated power function relationship. The variation of
 repeatedly impacted square prediction model to to study the composite axial impact incident energies Ein between the fitting
fibre-reinforced polymer characterize the behavior & tube curve and experimental data is less than 3%.
composite tube damage response (proposed E-glass A good agreement is observed between the
Empirical experimental data points and the prediction
Equation) model.
2013 Evaluation for residual Evaluate of residual The residual strength decreases as the impact
strength and fatigue strength energy increases
characteristics after impact in characteristics Experimental When the diameter of the impactor nose
CFRP composites (Propose the study the Woven increases, the residual strength decreases
prediction model for behavior carbonfiber- The prediction equation for residual strength
the residual strength) & reinforced after impact was proposed
according to (proposed plastic The fatigue life of composite materials
variations of the prediction (CFRP) decreases due to the impact damage
impact energy and mode) the fatigue test results.
the diameter of the The proposed fatigue life equation agrees
impactor well with the fatigue test results
2013 Environmental effect on Investigate the It is seen from results that fatigue life changes
fatigue life of glassepoxy effects of seawater according to both impact energy and seawater
composite pipes subjected to and impact loading immersion time. Fatigue life of non-impacted
impact loading on the fatigue life specimen is greater than the impacted one.
Impact
Fatigue life increases in the impacted
GlassEpoxy &
Experimental specimens up to 3 months and reaches
composite Cyclic
study generally maximum value. After that it
pipes internal
decreases with increase in seawater
pressure
immersion time. During the fatigue tests,
fatigue damage types named perspiration,
leakage, and eruption were observed

2014 Influence of low velocity Study the influence A decrease of the residual tensile
impact on fatigue behavior of of impact damage on strength has been measured, while the elastic
Experimental
woven hemp fiber reinforced the residual quasi- modulus remains unchanged
to study the
epoxy composites static tensile and It was shown that impacts induce the
behavior & Woven hemp
cyclic fatigue formation of damages at the fiber/interface
(proposed FR Epoxy
strengths. and microcracks in the matrix, thus
Empirical
anticipating the phase II and phase III of
Equation)
damage evolution in fatigue testing of non-
impacted specimens.
2014 Evaluation of a critical Characterize damage Experimental Impact The investigations have shown that there is a
GFRP
impact energy in GFRP development in to study the & critical impact energy causing a dramatic
laminate
under fatigue loading fatigue testing of behavior Cyclic decrease of fatigue life. For the teste material,
 fiber reinforced tension there is a unique critical value of impact
polymers as a compression energy which is dependent on the stress level
function of impact
energy, life time and
stress level
2014 An empirical modified Evaluate the residual A mathematical model was presented to
fatigue damage model for strength of GFRP describe the damage processes in form of
Experimental
impacted GFRP laminates laminate following a Impact stiffness matrix and failure criteria in plane
study & Woven
low velocity impact & state for GFRP composite.
predicted E-
event under cyclic Cyclic The prepared model, which includes low-
Mathematical glass/epoxy
loading fatigue load velocity impact and fatigue effect, is able to
model
predict the damage growth in laminated
structures
2014 Fatigue behavior of filament Studies the effects of The burst strength and the fatigue life of the
wound E-glass/epoxy the mechanical damaged GRP pipes were decreased as the
Impact
composite tubes properties, fiber impact energy increased. Also, the decrease
Experimental GRP &
damaged by low velocity winding angles and in the fatigue life was greater than that of the
study the composite Cyclic
impact surface defects on the burst strength
behavior tubes internal-
fatigue life of the
pressure
component subjected
to repeated loadings
2014 Prediction of post-impact Understanding the Experimental The residual strength was calculated by
residual strength and fatigue strength degradation study the substituting the hole notched strength of a
Impact
characteristics and interactions behavior standard plate
CFRP &
after impact of CFRP factors of composite & specimen into the prediction model for the
C shape Cyclic sine
composite structures due to impact (proposed residual strength after impact.
wave
damage and fatigue prediction The predicted result agrees well with the
mode) experimental result.
 SUMMARY OF PROJECT PROPOSAL
Title:
Study the effect of impacted damage composite material on fatigue characterization.
Objective:
1. Understanding the strength degradation and interactions factors of composite due to impact damage
and fatigue.
2. Predicted mathematical model.
3. Provide useful tool for detecting the damage in composite structures.

Materials and specimen:

3D woven composite material of carbon fiber.
Methodology:
Experimental study using the impact and fatigue tests.
Challenge:
1. Many impact tests should be conducted to characterized the impact damage (costly & time consuming).
2. NDT should be available to evaluate the impact damage (Experience).
3. Fatigue test should be performed for impacted and unimpacted sample.

Project novelty?