High cycle fatigue behaviour of autoclave-cured woven carbon fibre-reinforced polymer composite gears

Zorko, Damijan (author), Tavčar, Jože (author), Bizjak, Milan (author), Šturm, Roman (author), Bergant, Zoran (author)

The high cycle fatigue behaviour of autoclave-cured carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite gears is investigated. The CFRP gears were milled from a composite plate and tested in mesh with a steel drive gear under five torque loads ranging between 0.4 and 0.8 Nm in unlubricated conditions. A detailed gear damage analysis is conducted by employing scanning electron microscopy and high-resolution optical microscopy. Epoxy matrix microcracking is found to be the damage mechanism that leads to the final delamination failure. CFRP gears exhibited a significantly improved performance and a longer fatigue lifespan in comparison with the polymer and polymer composite gears.

• Language: English
• Keywords: polymer composites, fatigue, finite element analysis, FEA, fatigue testing, gears
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering; NTF - Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: 15 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 102, art. 107339
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-130619
• UDC: 621.8
• ISSN on article: 0142-9418
• DOI: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2021.107339
• COBISS.SI-ID: 76520451
• Publication date in RUL: 16.09.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Polymer testing
• Shortened title: Polym. test.
• Publisher: Applied Science Publishers Ltd
• ISSN: 0142-9418
• COBISS.SI-ID: 26155008

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: polimerni kompoziti, utrujanje, metode končnih elementov, testiranje utrujanja, zobniki