TY - CONF A1 - Trappe, Volker A1 - Basan, Ricardo T1 - Fatigue life evaluation of spar cap materials by four point bending test on width-tapered specimensa T2 - ICCM 20 N2 - The presented research project focuses on an effective method to evaluate the fatigue strength of thick unidirectional laminates to be applied in spar caps. Therefore, a width-tapered bending specimen was developed for a four point loading set up. Static and fatigue loading was performed with the load ratio of R=-1. The complex stress state was investigated numerically with a finite element analysis. Finally, the concept was proven experimentally on specimens made of pultruded fibre rods. The fatigue behaviour of continuous tapered width by water jet cutting was compared to discrete tapering by rod-drop. PB - ICCM20 CY - Copenhagen T2 - 20th International Conference on Composite Materials CY - Copenhagen, Denmark DA - 19.07.2015 KW - Fatigue KW - Pultruded fibre rods KW - CFRP KW - Four point bending test KW - Spar cap design PY - 2015 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38783 AN - OPUS4-38783 UR - http://iccm20.org/fullpapers/file?f=WM39KAy5ME VL - 2015 SP - Paper 150701-2549 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany