Fatigue life assessment of metal foils in multifunctional composites via combined experiments and simulations

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Authors

  • Stanislav Žák
  • René Hammer
  • Jördis Rosc
  • Thomas Krivec
  • Norbert Schell
  • Megan J. Cordill

External Organisational units

  • Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science
  • AT and S AG
  • Materials Center Leoben Forschungs GmbH
  • Institute of Coastal Research

Abstract

In many applications metal foils are part of multifunctional composites exhibiting a wide range of (thermo-) mechanical fatigue loading. Data about low cycle fatigue of metallic foils subjected to tension-compression fatigue is sparse due to geometric limits. In this contribution, detailed information about design, tension-compression fatigue testing and data extraction of a layered sample are given. Fatigue failure of both copper and Pre-Preg are analysed using scanning electron microscopy and computed tomography. Numerical models are used to calculate the elastic and plastic strains for the copper foils within the composite sample, allowing a correlation to the observed fatigue life.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number110715
JournalComposites Part B: Engineering
Volume259.2023
Issue number15 June
Early online date21 Apr 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jun 2023