MAE 644
FRACTURE MECHANICS
Designation: Required
Textbooks: Fracture Mechanics- Fundamentals and Applications, by T.L. Anderson, Second Edition, CRC Press
Topics covered:
- Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM)
- Elastic Crack Tip Field Equations
- The Stress Intensity Factor
- Energy Balance Approach
- Fracture Toughness Testing
- Elastic-Plastic Fracture Mechanics (EPFM)
- Crack Tip Plasticity
- Plastic Crack Tip Field Equations
- The J-Integral
- EPFM Testing
- Crack Growth
- Fatigue Crack Growth
- Creep Crack Growth
- Dynamic Crack growth and arrest
- Fracture Mechanics Models for Composite Materials
- LEFM Models
- Nonlinear Models
- Interfacial Fracture Mechanics
- Recent Development of Fracture Mechanics
- Nano-indentation Fracture
- Crack-up Stress Field with Strain-gradient Plasticity Theory
Class/laboratory schedule, i.e., number of sessions each week and duration of each session:
2 2-hour lecture sessions
Person(s) who prepared this description and date of preparation:
Bruce S. Kang, 11-26-02.