Prerequisite Courses:
Course Language:
English
Course Content:
Mechanisms of fracture, cleavage fracture, ductile fracture. Linear elastic fracture mechanics, crack tip plastic zone. Fatigue crack initiation; stress-life and strain-life approaches to fatigue analysis. Fatigue crack growth and fracture mechanics approach to fatigue analysis. Applications, damage tolerance, fail-safe and safe-life approaches to fatigue life estimation, applications in aeronautical industry. Considerations in design.