Fatigue of Fiber-reinforced Composites

• Main Authors: Vassilopoulos, Anastasios P. (Author), Keller, Thomas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2011.
• Series: Engineering Materials and Processes,
• Subjects: Materials science.; Continuum mechanics.; Building materials.; Materials Science.; Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Building Materials.

Fatigue has long been recognized as a mechanism that can provoke catastrophic material failure in structural applications and researchers are now turning to the development of prediction tools in order to reduce the cost of determining design criteria for any new material. Fatigue of Fiber-reinforce...