Fatigue Failure of Textile Fibres

Expertly edited with an international panel of contributors, this book explains the different types of fatigue failure in textiles, such as tensile, torsional and flex fatigue. It describes the mechanisms of each type of fatigue and illustrates the kinds of fatigue failure that can occur. With chapters covering the factors that can affect fatigue life and fatigue behaviou, the book underlines the relationship that fatigue has with the environment and looks at testing and modelling fatigue in such areas as polymer matrices. It then relates actual fibre fatigue failures to those of laboratory tests and the way they influence mathematical modelling to predict potential failure