Degradation analysis on high-cycle bending fatigue for woven SiC/SiC composites based on Wiener process model

A comprehensive investigation of degradation analysis under high-cycle bending fatigue (HCBF) loading for composite materials was conducted based on the Wiener process model. Degradation data are generated by conducting the probabilistic progressive damage analysis of composite materials considering the variability of material properties including mechanical properties and strength. Based on the degradation data, the Wiener process model is established with the power time transformation function and linear time-scale functions. The HCBF tests of composite cantilever beam specimen (CBS) and turbine guide vane (TGV) are conducted to evaluate the degradation process of composite materials. Compared with the experimental data and Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) method, the proposed methodology has the promising potentials to improve computational efficiency with acceptable computational accuracy for the CBSs. As for the TGV, the maximum relative errors for mean fatigue life arc within 17.89%, while the degradation tendency from experiments is similar to the simulated degradation curves, verifying the rationality of the proposed method based on Wiener process model. Moreover, reliability analysis is conducted based on the stochastic degradation process, which can be used to determine whether the performance of the structure meets the design requirement. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.