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Interfacial fatigue crack growth in foam core sandwich structures
Author(s) -
Shipsha,
Burman,
Dan Zenkert
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and structures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.887
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1460-2695
pISSN - 8756-758X
DOI - 10.1046/j.1460-2695.1999.00148.x
Subject(s) - materials science , core (optical fiber) , stress intensity factor , paris' law , composite material , crack closure , structural engineering , beam (structure) , stress concentration , stress (linguistics) , finite element method , intensity (physics) , amplitude , fracture mechanics , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
This paper deals with the experimental measurement of face/core interfacial fatigue crack growth rates in foam core sandwich beams. The so‐called ‘cracked sandwich beam’ specimen is used, slightly modified, which is a sandwich beam that has a simulated face/core interface crack. The specimen is precracked so that a more realistic crack front is created prior to fatigue growth measurements. The crack is then propagated along the interface, in the core material, during fatigue loading, as is assumed to occur in a real sandwich structure. The crack growth is stable even under constant amplitude testing. Stress intensity factors are obtained from the FEM which, combined with the experimental data, result in standard d a /d N versus Δ K curves for which classical Paris’ law constants can be extracted. The experiments to determine stress intensity factor threshold values are performed using a manual load‐shedding technique.