Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- PART 1: Fatigue of Textile Composites -- 1. Fatigue Behavior and Damage Evolution of 2D and 3D Textile-Reinforced Composites -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Experimental methodologies -- 1.3. Fatigue behavior and damage evolution in 2D E-glass plain weave textile-reinforced epoxy composite -- 1.3.1. Quasi-static tensile behavior and damage observation -- 1.3.2. Fatigue life and damage metrics -- 1.3.3. Fatigue damage observation and evolution -- 1.3.4. Postfatigue mechanical properties and damage observation -- 1.4. Fatigue behavior and damage evolution in single-ply noncrimp 3D orthogonal weave E-glass reinforced epoxy composite -- 1.4.1. Quasi-static tensile behavior and damage observation -- 1.4.2. Fatigue life and damage metrics -- 1.4.3. Fatigue damage observation and evolution -- 1.4.4. Postfatigue mechanical properties and damage observation -- 1.5. Fatigue behavior and damage evolution in 3D rotary braided carbon reinforced epoxy composite -- 1.5.1. Quasi-static tensile behavior and damage observation -- 1.5.2. Fatigue life and damage metrics -- 1.5.3. Fatigue damage observation and evolution -- 1.5.4. Postfatigue mechanical properties -- 1.6. Fatigue behavior and damage evolution in non-crimp stitched and unstitched carbon reinforced epoxy composite -- 1.6.1. Quasi-static tensile behavior -- 1.6.2. Fatigue life and damage metrics -- 1.6.3. Fatigue damage observation and evolution -- 1.6.4. Postfatigue mechanical properties -- 1.7. Remarks and perspectives -- 1.8. Bibliography -- 2. Fatigue Limit: A Link to Quasi-Static Damage? -- 2.1. Fatigue limit -- 2.2. Damage development stages and load thresholds for quasi-static tension -- 2.3. Damage development in quasi-static tension and in the progression of fatigue loading.

2.4. Experimental data on the fatigue limit and the quasi-static damage thresholds for textile composites -- 2.4.1. Fatigue limit for glass fiber reinforced composites -- 2.4.2. Fatigue limit for carbon fiber reinforced composites -- 2.5. Summary and conclusion on the fatigue life limit -- 2.6. Bibliography -- PART 2: Fatigue of Short Fiber Reinforced Composites -- 3. Experimental Observations of Fatigue of Short Fiber Reinforced Composites -- 3.1. Injection molded SFRC -- 3.2. SN curve behavior of SFRC -- 3.2.1. Fiber-based parameters -- 3.2.2. Loading-based parameters -- 3.2.3. Environmental effects -- 3.2.4. Specimen configurations -- 3.3. Loss of stiffness -- 3.3.1. Collection of loss of stiffness data -- 3.3.2. Comparison of the loss of stiffness curves -- 3.4. Future outlook and modeling strategy -- 3.5. Bibliography -- 4. Fatigue Modeling of SFRC: A Master SN Curve Approach -- 4.1. Overall framework and modeling strategy -- 4.2. Choice of a mean field homogenization method -- 4.2.1. Benchmarking of schemes with full FE solution -- 4.3. Damage modeling -- 4.3.1. Fiber-matrix debonding: equivalent bonded inclusion approach -- 4.3.2. Matrix damage -- 4.3.3. Validation -- 4.4. MSNC approach -- 4.4.1. Scaling of SN curves using the endurance limit -- 4.4.2. MSNC approach -- 4.3.3. Validation -- 4.4.4. Comparison of the MSNC scheme with other schemes -- 4.5. Component-level simulations -- 4.6. Conclusions and future outlook -- 4.7. Bibliography -- Index -- Other titles from iSTE in Materials Science -- EULA.