Abstract
A progressive damage method of predicting the fatigue life of mechanically fastened joints in fiber-reinforced plastics was established, which is integrated fatigue material property degradation models. The equations of virtual work based on the theory of time increment were deduced to analyze stress-strain states under fatigue loading conditions. The three-dimensional Hashin-type fatigue failure criteria were introduced into the method to detect damage for diverse damage modes. The criteria of the structure catastrophe and the sudden material property degradation rules including the correlation among four basic damage mechanisms were also established. A software module of progressive damage analyses for bolted composite laminates is compiled, which is convenient for the application in engineering. The fatigue life, failure initiation, propagation and catastrophic failure of composite bolted joints under tension-tension fatigue loading conditions are predicted by using the fatigue progressive damage method established in the paper. An excellent agreement is found between data obtained from this study and the experiment.
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