Fatique Testing of OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) Cold Water Pipe Glass-Reinforced Plastic Materials

摘要

Specimens of a GFRP (glass fiber reinforced plastic) composite laminate - a candidate material for use in an OTEC cold water pipe (CWP) - were subjected to cyclic bending while immersed in a synthetic sea water solution. The loss of stiffness, i.e., decrease in bending modulus, for this GFRP was determined as a function of cycles of loading.