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This review discusses the fatigue behavior of short carbon and graphite fiber reinforced polymer matrix composites, highlighting their performance compared to long fiber systems. It emphasizes the advantages of short fibers, such as greater fatigue strength and improved thermal conductivity, despite their lower specific elastic modulus and strength. The review also examines micro-damage mechanisms, cyclic deformation behavior, and various parameters affecting fatigue studies in these composites.

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This review discusses the fatigue behavior of short carbon and graphite fiber reinforced polymer matrix composites, highlighting their performance compared to long fiber systems. It emphasizes the advantages of short fibers, such as greater fatigue strength and improved thermal conductivity, despite their lower specific elastic modulus and strength. The review also examines micro-damage mechanisms, cyclic deformation behavior, and various parameters affecting fatigue studies in these composites.

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Fatigue behaviour of short carbon and graphite fibre reinforced

polymer matrix composites – Review

Akhil Khajuria1, a *, Raman Bedi2, b, Rajneesh Kumar3, c, Dinesh Shukla4, d


and Mayur Pratap Singh5,e

1
Research Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Jalandhar, India
2
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Jalandhar, India
3
Senior Scientist, Engineering Division, CSIR-NML, Jamshedpur, India
4
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Jalandhar, India
5
Research Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Jalandhar, India
a
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
d
[email protected], [email protected]

Keywords: tension fatigue, flexural fatigue, stress ratio, frequency, specimen geometry,
carbon fiber, graphite fiber, epoxy resin

Abstract

There is enormous work available on fatigue behaviour of long carbon fibre reinforced
polymer matrix composites in comparison to short carbon fibre reinforced composite
systems. Performance of short carbon fibre and graphite fibre reinforced composite systems
is believed to be meagre in comparison to long fibre schemes due to reduced specific elastic
modulus, specific strength and uncertainty of fracture experiences on fibre-matrix interface or
ends of fibre. Nevertheless, the use of short carbon fibre is still encouraged, since they have
superior attributes like greater fatigue strength, improved thermal conductivity and better
dimensional stability in contrast to short glass fibre which is 95% used material in fibre
reinforced composites. Current review has attempted to extract the micro-damage
mechanisms, cyclic deformation behaviour, stress ratio effects, self heating effects, cyclic
frequency effects and different methods for quantative fatigue damage evaluation from the
published literature on short carbon and graphite fibre polymer matrix composites/plastics.
Main emphasis has been given to the geometry of specimens and different parameters
employed with their variations used for performing the fatigue studies on short carbon fibre
reinforced composites. Conclusions and interpretations from different researchers on these
composites have also been briefed.

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