Fatigue of material

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	330-0319/01
Abbreviation	UM
Course title	Fatigue of material
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Applied Mechanics
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Martin Fusek, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1 Types of material failure. Constructional and structural notches.
2. Notches and stress concentration. Stress concentration factor, stress gradient.
3. Linear elastic stress analysis of cracks.
4. Modes of fracture. Stress intensity factor.
5. Brittle fracture. Mechanical properties of materials.
6. Linear elastic fracture mechanics. Griffith, s criterium. Sih,s criterium.
7. Fatigue failure. Wohler diagram.
8. S-N curves. The factors effects of Fatigue Limit.
9. Mean stress effects. Amplitude-mean diagrams.
10. Effects of notches. Notches factors.
11. Multiaxial Fatigue.
12. Safety factors with multiaxial fatigue.
13. Prediction approach of high cyclic fatigue lifetime. Fatigue moduls (summary).
14. Temperature fatigue.

E-learning

Literature

[1] DOWLING, N. E. Mechanical behavior of materials: engineering methods for deformation, fracture, and fatigue. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, c1993. ISBN 0-13-026956-5.

Advised literature

SURESH, S. Fatigue of materials. 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-521-57847-7.

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