Deflected rotating shaft would be prone to
fatigue failure. Fatigue analysis of composite
drive shaft was comprehensively performed by
Badie et al. [10]. It was found that, the stacking
sequence has an effect on the fatigue
resistance. The best stacking is to locate the
layers of ±450 fiber orientation angles together
and far near the inner face of the torque tube.
In addition, the cross-ply configuration must be
located exposed to the outside with the
seniority of the 900 layer at the outer face
location.