A probabilistic approach on residual strength and damage buildup of high-performance fibers

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• 作者：Henk Knoester ; Joost Hulshof ; Ronald Meester
• 刊名：Journal of Materials Science
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：52
• 期：4
• 页码：1898-1910
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Materials Science, general; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Polymer Sciences; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials; Crystallography and Scattering Methods; Classical Mechanics;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-4803
• 卷排序：52

文摘

An elementary, probabilistic model for fiber failure, developed by Coleman in the fifties of the last century, predicts a Weibull distributed time-to-failure for fibers subject to a constant load. This has been experimentally confirmed, not only for fibers but for load-bearing products in general. In this paper, we analyze residual strength, i.e., the strength after having survived a given load program. We demonstrate that the Weibull modulus, describing variability of time-to-failure, affects residual strength. It determines (a) how fast residual strength of fibers decays during their service life, (b) the residual strength variability, and (c) the fraction of surviving fibers during service life. Experiments show that residual strength of Twaron fiber (p-aramid fiber), exceeding predictions of Coleman’s model, remains unrelentingly high (close to virgin strength) during service life.