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TMM4195

Fatigue Design

Credits 7.5
Level Third-year courses, level III
Course start Autumn 2010
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Examination arrangement Written examination

About

About the course

Course content

Fatigue in machinery and load-carrying structures. High- and low-cycle fatigue. Corrosion fatigue. Initiation and growth of fatigue cracks. Paris' law. Threshold value. S-N curve. Fatigue limit. Scatter. Short cracks. Kitagawa diagram. Surface condition. Notches. Size effects. Probabilistic design. Multiaxial fatigue. Cyclic plasticity. Neuber's rule. Load spectra. Cumulative damage. Sequence effects. Composites. Welded joints. Design principles. Design codes.

Learning outcome

To be capable to design machines and structures against fatigue and to predict the expected life of components in service.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures, exercises and demonstrations. If there is a re-sit examination, the examination form may be changed from written to oral.

Course materials

N. E. Dowling, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 3rd edition, April 2006. Supplementary notes.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
SIO2077 7.5 sp
This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Technological subjects

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: Written examination
Grade: Letters

Ordinary examination - Autumn 2010

Written examination
Weighting 100/100 Date 2010-12-16 Time 09:00 Duration 4 timer Place and room Not specified yet.

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