Fiber Reinforced Plastics/Composites ›› 2016, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (11): 39-45.

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RESEARCH ON THE FATIGUE LIFE PREDICTION OF COMPOSITE VESSEL UNDER MULITA-AXIAL LOADING

HUANG Qi-zhong1,3, ZHENG Jin-yang2, HU Jun1, REN Ming-fa4   

  1. 1.Dalian Institute of Inspection and Research for Boiler and Pressure Vessel, Dalian 116006, China;
    2.College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 116024, China;
    3.Beijing Composite Materials Co., Ltd., Beijing 102101, China;
    4.Faculty of Vehicle Engineering and Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
  • Received:2016-05-25 Online:2016-11-30 Published:2016-11-30

Abstract: There are obvious disadvantages in the ASME pressure vessel code, which is used to calculate the fatigue life of cylinders by the adoption of equivalent strain method, because it cannot take account of the multi-axial non-proportional loading effect. This paper studies the multi-axial low-cycle fatigue life of composite cylinders by adopting the corrected Brown-Miller algorithm as well as the effect of autofrettage pressure, metal liner thickness and single layer thickness on the composite cylinders′ fatigue life, and gives a method for increasing the composite cylinders′ fatigue life.

Key words: composite cylinder, multi-axial fatigue, fatigue life prediction, finite element method

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