Experimental investigation of impacted multidirectional laminates under compressive static and cyclic loading

•The impact, compression after impact and post-impact compression fatigue properties of three QIQH laminates were investigated.•The thermographic method was applied to determine rapidly fatigue limit and S-N curves of post-impact fatigue CFRP laminates.•The difference in crack orientations and distributions of three stacking sequences have little influence on the residual compressive strength and post-impact fatigue properties.