Very high cycle fatigue of fiber‐reinforced polymer composites: Uniaxial ultrasonic fatigue

A Behvar, M Sojoodi, M Elahinia… - Fatigue & Fracture of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This review explores uniaxial ultrasonic fatigue (USF) testing as a common and dependable
method for quantifying the extended fatigue life of fiber‐reinforced polymer (FRP) …

Damage assessment during ultrasonic fatigue testing of a CF-PEKK composite using self-heating phenomenon

A Premanand, M Rienks, F Balle - International Journal of Fatigue, 2024 - Elsevier
The knowledge and experience with the very high cycle fatigue (VHCF) behavior are limited
compared to the low cycle and high cycle fatigue behavior of fiber-reinforced composite …

Influence of pulse duration on the fatigue behavior of a carbon‐fiber‐reinforced composite under cyclic three‐point bending at 20 kHz

A Premanand, F Balle - … & Fracture of Engineering Materials & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Very high cycle fatigue (VHCF) experiments are limited in practice due to their long testing
times. In ultrasonic fatigue test (UFT) systems, the cyclic oscillation is applied using …

Rapid fatigue limit estimation of smart polymer-matrix composite under self-heating bending tests using an innovative automatic approach: Knee method

L Dolbachian, W Harizi, I Gnaba, Z Aboura - International Journal of Fatigue, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract In recent years, Polymer-Matrix Composites (PMCs) have gained increasing
attention across various sectors. With this growing interest and usage, accurately …

Bayesian optimization-based prediction of the thermal properties from fatigue test IR imaging of composite coupons

M Demleitner, RQ Albuquerque, A Sarhadi… - … Science and Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
The prediction of the prevailing self-heat transfer parameters of a glass/epoxy composite
coupon during fatigue testing in general and the distinction between viscoelastic-and …

Numerical simulation and experimental validation of self-heating of polymer-matrix composites during low-cycle fatigue loading

J Amraei, A Katunin, M Lipińska - International Journal of Fatigue, 2024 - Elsevier
This study addressed gaps in understanding the physics underlying the self-heating
phenomenon—a potential factor contributing to acceleration of fatigue life degradation in …

[HTML][HTML] Thermomechanical fatigue behavior of CF/PEKK composite under low and ultrasonic frequencies

J Amraei, T Rogala, A Katunin, A Premanand… - Composites Part B …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study aimed to extract the thermomechanical fatigue behavior of a CF/PEKK composite
under low and ultrasonic frequency fatigue tests (LFFTs and UFFTs) in the presence of the …

[HTML][HTML] Accelerated estimation of the very high cycle fatigue strength and life of polymer composites under ultrasonic cyclic three-point bending

A Premanand, M Rienks, F Balle - Materials & Design, 2024 - Elsevier
Ultrasonic fatigue testing (UFT) offers a strong potential to accelerate the testing time of
fatigue experiments of materials up to very high cycle (VHCF) and giga-cycle (GC) fatigue …

An experimental investigation of fatigue performance and damage distribution mechanism in Bi-Directional GFRP composites

AA Khan, IV Singh, BK Mishra… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
This study presents an experimental investigation of the fatigue performance and damage
distribution mechanism of bi-directional GFRP composites. Uniaxial fatigue tests have been …

Ultrasonic fully reversed axial tests for exploring the very high cycle fatigue of composite materials

CB Niutta, A Tridello, DS Paolino - International Journal of Fatigue, 2025 - Elsevier
In the present work, the feasibility of axial ultrasonic tests for exploring the fully reversed
fatigue response of composite materials even in the Very High Cycle Fatigue (VHCF) regime …