The self-heating effect can be considered as a catastrophic phenomenon that occurs in
polymers and polymer–matrix composites (PMCs) subjected to fatigue loading or vibrations …

Very high cycle fatigue (VHCF) testing at conventional frequencies is highly time-consuming
and unrealistic for large sample sizes. Though testing at ultrasonic frequencies can …

Accelerated fatigue testing is one potential solution to evaluate the very high cycle fatigue
behavior of composite materials within a reasonable amount of time. The ultrasonic fatigue …

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 …

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 …

The need for very-high-cycle fatigue (VHCF) testing up to 1010 cycles of aviation gas turbine
engine blade materials under combined mechanical loads and complex environments has …

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 …

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 …

The fatigue behavior of single and hybrid fiber-reinforced laminates, involving carbon and
glass fibers with an epoxy matrix reinforced with graphene nanoplatelets, was studied in …

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 …