Course Title:
Fracture Mechanics and Failure Analysis
Course Description:
Explores the fundamentals of fracture and failure of materials. Includes Orwan and Griffith theory of fracture, energy release rate and stress intensity factor as fracture parameters, fracture toughness and its determination, crack growth resistance, R curve, crack opening displacement, J integral methodology, prediction of fatigue crack growth using fracture mechanics, test for measurement of fatigue crack growth parameters, optical fractography in failure analysis, overview of nonlinear fracture mechanics, probabilistic method for fracture prediction for ceramic materials with random populations of microscopic flaws, and application of fracture mechanics in failure analysis.
Fall Offering:
None
Lab/Coreq 1:
Spring Offering:
None
Lab/Coreq 2:
Summer Offering:
None
Lab/Coreq Remarks:
Summer 1 Offering:
None
Prerequisite 1:
MTM G210
Summer 2 Offering:
None
Prerequisite 2:
Cross-Listed Course 1:
Prerequisite 3:
Cross-Listed Course 2:
Prerequisite 4:
Cross-Listed Course 3:
Prerequisite 5:
Cross-Listed Course 4:
Prerequisite Remarks:
Or equivalent.
Cross-Listed Course 5:
Repeatable:
N
