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This paper presents a simple prediction scheme correlating fatigue life to the thermal degradation of fatigue strength. Shifting factors similar to the time-temperature shifting in viscoelastic media were employed to account for the effect of temperature on fatigue strength and an iso-strength plot was introduced for fatigue life prediction under non-isothermal conditions. The scheme presented in this paper can predict the load frequency effect associated with hysteretic heating from limiting basic material information. The load frequency effect on the fatigue life of an AS4/PEEK ±45 thermoplastic composite laminate was investigated at 1 Hz, 5 Hz and 10 Hz. Fatigue life prediction for 5 Hz and 10 Hz based on S-N data at 1 Hz was also demonstrated. The predictions agreed reasonably with the experimental data.

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Modeling of Load Frequency Effect on Fatigue Life of Thermoplastic Composites

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