Fatigue behaviour of carbon/epoxy Non-Crimp Fabric composites for automotive applications

Facing the stringent requirements for fuel economy in automotive industry, composite materials are seen to be utilized for structural lightweighting. This paper focuses on the fatigue test development and fatigue behavior of a biaxial [0/90] carbon/epoxy non-crimp fabric composites for automotive applications. A new fatigue test specimen was successfully developed for fatigue testing under fully reversed loading, i.e. stress ratio R=-1, at room …