A Multiscale Approach for Fiber Damage Prediction of Composite Open-Hole Tension Coupon under Fatigue Loading

Since fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are inherently anisotropic and display a wide variety of failure mechanisms, predicting their fatigue behavior is a challenging task. Prediction of fatigue in FRP composites demands progressive damage analysis tools that account for constituent physics of the problem. In this work a fatigue failure methodology based on the kinetic theory of fracture (KTF) is developed that uses the physics of the...