Undergraduate Catalog

MEEN 422 Fatigue and Fracture Analysis

The course is an introduction to elastic and elastic-plastic fracture mechanics and fatigue. It covers the topics of stress concentration due to defects, linear elastic fracture mechanics, energy methods in fracture mechanics, stress analysis of cracks and stress intensity, stress-life and strain-life methods of fatigue analysis and design, and initiation and propagation of fatigue cracks under cyclic loading.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

MEEN 325

Offered

Spring