Abstract
Microscopic damage progress in CFRP cross-ply laminates under tensile fatigue loading was measured by the replica technique. Material systems were interleaved CFRP, T800H/3631-FM300 and toughness-improved CFRP, T800H/3900-2, with selectively toughened interlaminar layers. The damage parameter, the transverse crack density, was presented. A Paris law model was proposed, which related the cyclic strain range and the number of cycles at the transverse crack initiation. Based on the experimental data, a variational stress analysis combined with the modified Paris law was conducted to model the transverse crack multiplication.
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