DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF FATIGUE ANALYSIS TEST SETUP FOR COMPOSITE MATERIAL TESTING

Lot of research work is published on various aspects of fatigue failure behavior of laminated composite materials. There is no standard method followed by researchers since these research works published in this area are based on specific case studies. The methodology followed and presented in the literature is based on case studies of actual components to be manufactured with laminated composites. In this connection the present project work is aimed at establishing the laboratory scale model flexural fatigue test rig to understand the failure behavior of laminated composites, subjected to flexing cyclically. In the present project work is aimed to Design and fabrication of flexural fatigue analysis test setup for composite material testing laboratory scale model to log the data generated by the test rig. The data logged is further analyzed to understand the fatigue failure behavior of laminated composites of research work titled critical analysis of utilization of composite materials with a basic objective of reducing the complexity of existing design to reduce the cost of machine which could be easily established in any engineering mechanics of solids laboratories. This work consist of the experimental w