An investigation on Fatigue Behaviour of Bi-Directional Fibre Reinforced Polymer Nano Composite using FEA solver

Abstract

The world is looking for the new materials because of rapid industrialization, specific needs and demands from the people. Glass fiber reinforced polymer composites are the promising materials from few decades. Glass fibers reinforced polymer composites have been prepared by various manufacturing techniques and are widely used for various applications. Nowadays, it has been used in electronics, aviation and automobile application. Glass fibers are having excellent properties like high strength, flexibility, stiffness and resistance to chemical harm. Each type of glass fibers have unique properties and are used for various applications in the form of polymer nano-composites. Nano materials in polymer nano-composites (PNC) play major role in mechanical properties. PNC’s are one of the novel materials, which give better functional properties than other materials. Fatigue failure in complex structures cannot be predicted earlier. Fatigue cracks can be initiated and propagated at stresses well below the yield strength of the material. In this paper, it is explained the fatigue behavior of PNC’s using FEA solver to determine the strength properties and to compare both analytical and experimental values of fatigue testing.