Fatigue in Composites (Distributed Stiffness Degradation)

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Unlike metallic fatigue (Metallurgy A1, single dominant crack), in composites fatigue manifests itself as progressive and distributed degradation of stiffness due to accumulated microdamage (cracked matrix, dispersed debonding).

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