본 연구에서는 국내산 비규칙성 짧은 섬유로 강회된 SMC 복합재료의 피로파괴 특성에 대한 기초자료로서 피로균열의 진전특성을 나타내는데 기존파괴 역학의 적용여부를 살펴보며, 서로 다른 피로모드 상태 하에서 하중크기의 상태에 따른 피로균열진전의 특성을 나타내었으며, 또한 주사형 전자현미경(scanning electron microscope)을 사용한 파단면 관찰을 통해 파괴 메카니즘을 살펴보았다.
The fatigue crack propagation of random short fiber SMC composite material was investigated. In macroscopic viewpoint, SMC composite material was treated as isotropic material and was analyzed in terms of conventional fracture mechanics. Experiments were conducted on mode I and mixed respectively and various loading level was applied to each mode. Fatigue crack growth can be explained in three steps and most of fatigue life is consumed in initial crack growth. In this experiments, power law, i.e, da/dN=C(C.DELTA.K)$^{m}$ , between fatigue crack growth rate and stress intensity factor range, was valid and the value of the exponent m is about 10, which is much higher than that of other metals. Fracture mechanism was also investigated by SEM fractographic study.
