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During testing, a mass was applied to the CFRP cantilever beam to achieve a pre-stressed state, and the laser power densities varied from 500 to 1500 W\u00b7cm\u22122. Corresponding scanning electron microscope (SEM) tests were also performed on the ablation zone and fracture surface to analyze the failure mechanism. The results showed that the CFRP beam failed in compression at the bottom surface, which was due to a decrease in local stiffness and strength caused by heat softening, rather than by ablation damage on the top surface. The failure time decreased from 19.64 s to 6.52 s as the power density (500\u20131500 W\u00b7cm\u22122) and pre-stress loading (300\u2013750 N\u00b7cm) increased, indicating that pre-stress loading has a more significant influence on the failure time of CFRP beams compared to power density.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/polym17152153","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,6]],"date-time":"2025-08-06T13:25:11Z","timestamp":1754486711000},"page":"2153","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Failure Mechanism of Pre-Stressed CFRP Beam Under Laser Ablation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Yuting","family":"Zhao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300400, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ruokun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300400, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5056-2197","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhuhua","family":"Tan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300400, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"118845","DOI":"10.1016\/j.compstruct.2025.118845","article-title":"Thermal effect in CFRP machining: Temperature field characteristics, heat generation mechanism and thermal damage management","volume":"356","author":"Ge","year":"2025","journal-title":"Compos. 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