Abstract
This study focuses on the effect of confined and one sided sea water confinement on the cyclic fatigue behavior of carbon fiber reinforced vinyl ester composites that serve as facings materials for naval sandwich structures. Experimental results for facings yielded failures under much lower number of cycles when fatigued under immersed conditions surrounded by sea water than in air. Water penetrates the matrix resin through diffusion and fiber/matrix interface by capillary action through micro-cracks or inter-layer delaminations. During fatigue loading, its inability to drain during the downward (compressive) cyclic loading and the near incompressibility of water induces an internal pore water pressures which dominates the progressive failure mechanism. Sea water induced fatigue degradation data and resulting microstructure changes are obtained using high resolution X-ray micro-tomography along with the implications for marine composites.
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