PROGRESS OF THE FATIGUE DAMAGE CUMULATIVE RULES OF FRP

In this paper the fatigue damage cumulative rules of fibre-reinforced plastics (FRP) are reviewed and discussed. These rules can be classified as the residual life model, residual strength model, residual stiffness model, dissipational energy model, Markov-chain model and other empirical models. Two sets of experimental data have been employed for the comparison between experiment and prediction given by different models. The results show that the prediction capacity of the models is not better than that of the traditional Miner rule, with the model presented by Yao and Himmel little better than others.