FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Tension fatigue failure prediction for HMPE fibre ropes BT AF HUMEAU, Corentin DAVIES, Peter SMEETS, P. ENGELS, T. A. P. GOVAERT, L. E. VLASBLOM, M. JACQUEMIN, F AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:3,4;5:4;6:2;7:5; FF 1:PDG-REM-RDT-LCSM;2:PDG-REM-RDT-LCSM;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:; C1 IFREMER, Ctr Bretagne, Lab Comportement Struct Mer, CS 10070, F-29280 Plouzane, France. DSM Dyneema, Urmonderbaan 22, NL-6167 Geleen, Netherlands. DSM Mat Sci Ctr, Urmonderbaan 22, NL-6167 Geleen, Netherlands. Eindhoven Univ Technol, NL-5612 AZ Eindhoven, Netherlands. EMM GeM, 58 Rue Michel Ange, F-44600 St Nazaire, France. C2 IFREMER, FRANCE DSM DYNEEMA, NETHERLANDS DSM MAT SCI CTR, NETHERLANDS UNIV EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS EMM GEM, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-REM-RDT-LCSM IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-france copubli-europe IF 2.943 TC 13 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00416/52785/53684.pdf LA English DT Article AB In order to predict the lifetime of fibre rope mooring lines it is essential to be able to predict their behaviour under tension fatigue. Creep failure is known to be a major contributor to fatigue in synthetic fibres and models to predict creep failure are well-established. We show that expansion of such models to varying loading conditions allows the prediction of the fatigue performance. However, it is difficult to design tests to quantify the fatigue performance for HMPE ropes since often premature failure occurs due to external abrasion and viscous heating due to too high testing frequencies or amplitudes. This paper presents a testing methodology which allows tensile fatigue lifetime to be evaluated by testing at higher temperature to avoid premature abrasion failure. We also show that when the temperature evolution due to viscous heating is properly accounted for the modelling framework presented can be effectively used to describe the premature failure occurring due to this heating effect. Results from tests on yarns and small ropes are presented, and a predictive model for rope fatigue lifetime has been validated. PY 2018 PD FEB SO Polymer Testing SN 0142-9418 PU Elsevier Sci Ltd VL 65 UT 000424725500057 BP 497 EP 504 DI 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2017.12.014 ID 52785 ER EF