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    This document outlines the course details for Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics at B.M.S. College of Engineering. The course is offered to Aerospace Engineering students, is worth 3 credits, and involves 50 marks each for continuous internal evaluation and semester end examination. The course objectives are to teach fatigue characteristics of structures, fatigue life calculation methods, fracture mechanics, and modern design philosophies. The course is divided into 5 units covering topics such as stress-life approach, strain-life approach, statistical aspects of fatigue, linear elastic fracture mechanics, and fatigue design and testing. Upon completion, students will be able to analyze fatigue of structures, calculate fatigue life under variable loading, describe fracture mechanics, and identify modern design philosoph

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    B.M.S.

    COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, BENGALURU


    Autonomous College under VTU
    DEPARTMENT OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

    COURSE CREDITS MARKS

    NAME FATIGUE AND FRACTURE L T P CIE SEE


    MECHANICS
    CODE 20AE6IE FFM 3 0 0 50 50

    Course Objectives:
    1. To teach the fatigue of structures & its characteristics under external load
    2. To train the students for fatigue life calculation of structures under external load at variable amplitude loading
    3. To instruct the mechanics of fracture to study crack growth in materials and predict the fatigue crack growth of a
    component using fracture mechanics
    4. To instruct the modern design philosophy

    Course Pre-requisites:
    Basic course on Strength of Materials

    Unit-1
    Introduction - Introduction to Fatigue, Definition, Historical overview of fatigue, Phases in fatigue life - crack
    initiation, crack growth, final fracture (Micro/macro aspects of fatigue of metals).
    Fatigue of Structures I - Stress Life (S-N) approach – Introduction, S-N Curves, Endurance limit, Effect of Mean
    stress and Haigh diagrams, Life estimation with the S-N Approach Design of Components - Goodman, Gerber and
    Soderberg relations and diagrams. Notches, Stress concentration factors, Notched S-N curves.

    Unit-2
    Fatigue of Structures II - Strain Life (ε-N) approach – Introduction, Material behaviour - monotonic stress-strain
    behaviour, cyclic stress strain behaviour, transient behaviour (cyclic strain hardening and softening), cyclic stress-
    strain curve determination, Stress-plastic strain power law relation, Strain life curve (Coffin-Manson relation),
    Neuber’s rule.

    Unit-3
    Statistical Aspects of Fatigue Behaviour - Low cycle and high cycle fatigue, Transition life, Cycle counting
    techniques, Definition of fatigue damage, Cumulative damage, Miner’s theory, other theories.

    Unit-4
    Fracture Mechanics – Introduction, Strength of cracked bodies, Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM),
    Griffith’s theory, Irwin extension of Griffith’s theory to ductile materials, Stress intensity factor, Stress analysis of
    cracked bodies, Relation between G & K, Crack tip plasticity, Effect of crack tip plasticity on G, Fracture toughness,
    Effect of thickness on fracture toughness, Stress intensity factors for typical geometries. Fatigue crack growth curve,
    Empirical relation describing crack growth law-life calculations.

    Unit-5
    Fatigue Design and Testing - Evolution of design philosophies - Safe life, Fail-safe, Damage tolerance,
    Introduction to Fatigue & Damage Tolerance evaluation, recommended practices to improve fatigue design.

    Text Books:
    1. Elementary Engineering Fracture Mechanics, D. Broek, Noordhoff International Publishing Co., London, 1994.
    2. Metal fatigue in Engineering, Ralph I Stephens, Ali Fatemi, Robert, A Wiely - Interscience, 2nd Edition, 2001.
    3. Fundamentals of Fracture Mechanics, J. F. Knott, Butterworth & Co., (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1983.

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    B.M.S.COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, BENGALURU
    Autonomous College under VTU
    DEPARTMENT OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
    Reference Books:
    1. Fatigue of Aircraft Structures, W. Barrois and L. Ripley, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1983.
    2. Mechanics of Fracture, C. G. Sih, Vol.1, Sijthoff and Noordhoff International Publishing Co., Netherland, 1989
    3. Fatigue of structures & materials, Jaap Schijive, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004
    4. Deformation and Fracture Mechanics of Engineering Materials, Richard W. Hertzberg, John Wiely & Sons, 1996
    4th Edition
    5. Fracture Mechanics – Fundamentals & Applications, T. L. Anderson, Taylor & Francis Group, 3rd Edition 2005
    6. Fundamentals of Metal Fatigue Analysis, Julie A Bannantine, Jess J Comer & James, Prentice-Hall, Inc, New
    Jersey, 1990

    Course outcomes: After completion of the course students will be able to

    CO1: Analyse fatigue of structures & its characteristics under external load.
    CO2: Solve fatigue life of structures undergoing plastic behavior under external load at variable amplitude loading.
    CO3: Describe the mechanics of fracture to study crack growth in materials Predict the fatigue crack growth of a component
    using fracture mechanics.
    CO4: Identifying modern design philosophy.

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