Experimental and probabilistic study of fatigue crack growth behavior of steel Q345qC under different stress ratios

Ke, Lu; Li, Youlin; Li, Chuanxi; Zheng, Feng; Zhu, Furui; Liang, Longming; Mei, Shuyu

doi:10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2023.131986

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“…Traditional strengthening methods, including welding, crack arresting hole, prestressing strengthening, and geometric have some drawbacks and limitations. 2 They may introduce new defects in the parent material, resulting in failure to assure the safety of the structures. 3,4 Carbon fiberreinforced polymer (CFRP) strengthening is one of the effective ways to enhance the fatigue behavior of steel structures.…”

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Fatigue performance of carbon fiber‐reinforced polymer strengthened single‐edge cracked steel plates: Effects of adhesive property and CFRP arrangement

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Chen,

Feng

et al. 2024

Polymer Composites

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Carbon fiber‐reinforced polymer (CFRP) is increasingly used to improve the fatigue behavior of damaged steel structures due to its advantages, including high strength and convenient processing. However, several issues, such as the effects of the adhesive property and CFRP arrangement, still need to be studied. In this study, a total of 20 single‐cracked steel specimens were tested under fatigue load, including two unstrengthened specimens, six single‐sided strengthened specimens, and 12 double‐sided strengthened specimens. The failure mode, fatigue life, crack propagation pattern, and interface damage development were obtained from experiments. The results show that epoxy resin structural adhesives (adhesives Araldite 420 and J133C) have the best bonding properties with CFRP. For the conventional epoxy adhesives, Araldite 420 and J133C can considerably improve fatigue life, which increased by more than 44.84 times to unstrengthened specimens. CFRP plate strengthening can significantly improve the fatigue life of single‐edge cracked steel plates. For the double‐sided strengthened specimens, the fatigue life can be improved by 6.93–44.84 times that of unstrengthened specimens. For the single‐sided, the fatigue life can be improved by 2.24–2.77 times. Properties of epoxy adhesive have a more significant effect on fatigue life compared to the thickness of the CFRP plate due to debonding.Highlights Ductile epoxy adhesives are most conducive to improving the fatigue behavior of CFRP strengthened steel plates. The fatigue life of steel plates can be improved by increasing the thickness of CFRP plates and using double‐sided CFRP strengthening. Interface debonding is the main failure mode of CFRP plates strengthening single‐edge cracked steel plates under fatigue.

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