%0 journal article
%@ 1359-8368
%A Trost, C.O.W., Žák, S., Ruderes, K., Hammer, R., Rosc, J., Krivec, T., Schell, N., Gänser, H.-P., Hohenwarter, A., Cordill, M.J.

%D 2023
%J Composites. Part B, Engineering

%P 110715 
%R doi:10.1016/j.compositesb.2023.110715
%T Fatigue lifetime assessment of metal foils in multifunctional composites via combined experiments and simulations
%U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2023.110715
 
%X In many applications metal foils are part of multifunctional composites exhibiting a wide range of (thermo-) mechanical fatigue loading. Data about low cycle fatigue of metallic foils subjected to tension-compression fatigue is sparse due to geometric limits. In this contribution, detailed information about design, tension-compression fatigue testing and data extraction of a layered sample are given. Fatigue failure of both copper and Pre-Preg are analysed using scanning electron microscopy and computed tomography. Numerical models are used to calculate the elastic and plastic strains for the copper foils within the composite sample, allowing a correlation to the observed fatigue life.