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Durability Analysis of CFRP Adhesive Joints: A Study Based on Entropy Damage Modelling Using FEM

This paper is not relevant to microplastics research — it analyzes fatigue lifetime prediction methods for carbon fiber reinforced polymer adhesive joints using entropy-based damage models.

2023 Preprints.org 7 citations
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Fatigue Failure of Adhesive Joints in Fiber-Reinforced Composite Material Under Step/Variable Amplitude Loading—A Critical Literature Review

This study is not about microplastics; it is a materials engineering review of fatigue failure mechanisms and damage accumulation models for fiber-reinforced polymer composite adhesive joints under variable-amplitude loading conditions.

2024 Journal of Composites Science 3 citations
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Fatigue in Adhesively Bonded Joints: A Review

This review of over 220 studies on fatigue in adhesively bonded joints covers fatigue strength, crack initiation, crack propagation, durability under variable loading, and the influence of environmental conditions on joint performance. Researchers identify ongoing challenges in predicting fatigue life and highlight the lack of standardized testing methods as a barrier to applying research findings in engineering design.

2012 ISRN Materials Science 164 citations
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A Continuum Damage Mechanics-based Piecewise Fatigue Damage Model for Fatigue Life Prediction of Fiber-Reinforced Laminated Composites

This engineering study developed a mathematical model to predict how fiber-reinforced plastic composite materials accumulate damage and eventually fail under repeated cyclic stress. The model could help engineers design longer-lasting plastic composite structures used in aerospace, automotive, and construction applications.

2021 International Journal of Engineering 14 citations
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A Review of Damage, Void Evolution, and Fatigue Life Prediction Models

This review examines empirical and physics-based models for damage evolution, void growth, and fatigue life prediction in engineering materials, covering frameworks including the Gurson-Tvergaard-Needleman model, Johnson-Cook damage model, microplasticity models, and unified mechanics theory using irreversible entropy.

2021 Metals 48 citations
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A continuum damage mechanics model for fatigue and degradation of fiber reinforced materials

This engineering paper presents a mathematical model describing how fiber-reinforced materials degrade under repeated loading, using microplastic deformation as the driving mechanism for damage accumulation. It is a materials science study with no direct relevance to environmental plastic pollution or human health.

2020 Journal of Composite Materials 17 citations
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A Review of Damage, Void Evolution, and Fatigue Life Prediction Models

This engineering review summarizes models for predicting how damage, voids, and fatigue cause materials such as metals and composites to fail over time. This materials science paper is not related to microplastic environmental contamination.

2021 Preprints.org 13 citations
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On Microplasticity-induced Fatigue Fracture and its Relation to Entropy

Researchers investigated the relationship between microplasticity and fatigue fracture in steel specimens under axial cyclic loading, using fatigue testing machines to identify the stress cycle point at which microplastic deformation becomes detectable and analyzing its relationship to entropy production.

2024 Journal of Physics Conference Series
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Damage tolerant fatigue behavior of laminated metallic composites with dissimilar yield strength

This study investigated the damage-tolerant fatigue behavior of laminated metal composites (LMCs) produced by accumulative roll bonding, finding that dissimilar yield strength layering improves resistance to fatigue crack growth. The results inform the design of lightweight structural materials for aircraft fuselage and wing components requiring high damage tolerance.

2024 Journal of Materials Science 6 citations
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An Entropy-Based Damage Characterization

This paper proposes using entropy — a measure of energy dissipation — as a scientific framework for characterizing damage and degradation in materials under stress. This is a thermodynamics and materials engineering study with no direct connection to microplastics research.

2014 Entropy 63 citations
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A quantitative residual stiffness model for carbon fiber reinforced polymer tendons

Not relevant to microplastics — this engineering study models residual stiffness degradation in carbon fiber-reinforced polymer tendons under fatigue loading, relevant to civil infrastructure but with no connection to microplastic research.

2024 Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures 3 citations
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Determination of energy dissipation during cyclic loading and its use to predict fatigue life of metal alloys

This paper is not about microplastics — it develops a mathematical method for predicting the fatigue life of metal alloys from energy dissipation during cyclic loading.

2023 Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures 7 citations
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Fatigue Damage Evaluation of Aviation Aluminum Alloy Based on Strain Monitoring

Researchers developed a metal fatigue damage model for aerospace aluminum alloy using real-time strain monitoring combined with crystal plasticity finite element analysis, establishing a constitutive relationship between strain and damage prior to microcrack initiation. Electron backscatter diffraction analysis validated the model's accuracy in predicting fatigue damage states under various stress conditions.

2024 Applied Sciences 5 citations
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A Small-Deformation Rate-Independent Continuous-Flow Model for Elasto-Plastic Frames Allowing Rapid Fatigue Predictions in Metallic Structures

This engineering paper presents a computational model for predicting fatigue behavior in metal frame structures with localized plastic deformation. The study is focused on structural engineering and is unrelated to microplastic pollution research.

2023 International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics 1 citations
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Methodology for Application of Damage Mechanics Approach to Model High Temperature Fatigue Damage Evolution in a Turbine Disc Superalloy

Researchers developed a damage mechanics methodology to model high-temperature fatigue damage evolution in a turbine disc superalloy, addressing the absence of established standards for this approach. Testing at 650°C enabled characterization of cyclic damage accumulation and material strength deterioration, providing a lifing framework for assessing fatigue life in aeroengine gas turbine components.

2023 Defence Science Journal 3 citations
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Characterization of Hybrid FRP Composite Produced from Recycled PET and CFRP

This paper is not about microplastics — it characterizes the mechanical properties of recycled carbon fiber composites made with PET plastic waste for structural applications.

2023 Polymers 14 citations
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Thermo‐based fatigue life prediction: A review

Not relevant to microplastics — this review covers thermography-based methods for predicting the fatigue life of metals under cyclic stress, with no connection to plastic pollution or environmental health.

2023 Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures 13 citations