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Informationen zum Autor Valter Carvelli is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construiction Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Professor Stepan V. Lomov graduated with an M.S. in Phys.-Mech in 1978 from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and then went on to complete his PhD in1985. He was awarded his Dr Hab. on textile materials science in 1995, from St. Petersburg State University of Technology and Design. Since 1999, Professor Lomov has been working at the KU Leuven, Belgium, in the Department of Materials Engineering. He was coordinator of the Composite Materials Group between 2013 to 2020. He was also holder of the Toray Chair in Composite Materials at the KU Leuven between 2013 to 2022 and has been an Emeritus Professor since 2020. His research areas include composites and textiles science and engineering: internal structure, manufacturing, in-service mechanical behaviour, nanocomposites, experimental damage mechanics, micro- and meso-level geometrical and mechanical models. Fatigue of Textile Composites provides a current, state-of-art review on recent investigations on the fatigue behavior of composite materials, mainly those reinforced with textiles. . As this particular group of composite materials is extremely important for a wide variety of industrial applications, including automotive, aeronautical, and marine, etc., mainly due to their peculiarities and advantages with respect to unidirectional laminated composites, the text presents comprehensive information on the huge variety of interlacement geometric architectures that are suitable for a broad range of different applications, their excellent drapability and versatility, which is highly important for complex double-curvature shape components and three-dimensional woven fabrics without plane reinforcement, and their main mechanical characteristics which are currently in high demand from industry. ...
List of contents
Part I. Concepts and methods
1. A conceptual framework for studies of durability in composite materials
2. The "cycle jump" concept for modelling high cycle fatigue in composite materials
3. Experimental methods and standards for fatigue of fibre-reinforced composites
4. Databases for fatigue analysis in composite materials
Part II. Fatigue at micro-level
5. Fatigue analysis of carbon, glass and other fibres
6. Multiaxial fatigue of a unidirectional ply: An experimental top-down approach
7. Modelling the crack initiation in UD laminates under multiaxial fatigue loading
Part III. Phenomenology and modelling of fatigue in different textile composites
8. 2D woven fabric composites under fatigue loading of different types and in different environmental conditions
9. Fatigue response and damage evolution in 2D textile composites
10. Fatigue damage evolution in 3D textile composites
11. Fatigue of 3D textile reinforced composites
12. Fatigue of non-crimp fabric composites
13. Fatigue models for woven textile composite laminates
14. Modelling high cycle fatigue of textile composites on the unit cell level
Part IV. Applications
15. Fatigue testing and online inspection of carbon textile composites for aeronautical applications
16. Textile composites in automotive industry
17. Fatigue life in textile composites used for wind energy engineering
18. Construction engineering: fatigue life prediction of adhesively bonded textile composites
