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Ultrasonic fatigue of unfilled and carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforced polyetheretherketone (PEEK)

Ultrasonics, ISSN: 0041-624X, Vol: 138, Page: 107236
2024
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Fatigue properties of polyetheretherketone (PEEK) and multiwall carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforced PEEK were investigated with the ultrasonic fatigue testing method. Lifetimes were measured in the high and very high cycle fatigue regime at resonance frequency 19 kHz and load ratio R  = -1. Pulse-pause loading served to avoid specimen self-heating and led to effective cycling frequencies in the range from several hundred Hz to about two kHz. Stress amplitude for 50 % fracture probability at 10 9 cycles is 21.2 ± 4.3 MPa for unreinforced PEEK (22 % of its tensile strength) and 33.5 ± 3.5 MPa for CNT reinforced PEEK (33 % of its tensile strength). Servohydraulic fatigue tests at 22 Hz with CNT reinforced PEEK delivered fatigue lifetimes comparable to ultrasonic tests, i.e. no frequency effect and no influence of load versus displacement control was observed. Keeping specimen temperature far below the glass transition temperature, ultrasonic fatigue testing of a high temperature resistant plastic was successfully implemented.

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