MAE 165. Fatigue and Failure Analysis of Engineering Components (4 units)
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Description
The engineering and scientific aspects of crack nucleation, slow crack growth, and unstable fracture in crystalline and amorphous solids. Microstructural effects on crack initiation, fatigue crack growth and fracture toughness. Methods of fatigue testing and fracture toughness testing. Fractography and microfractography. Design safe methodologies and failure prevention. Failure analysis of real engineering structures. Prerequisites: consent of instructor. (Not offered every year.)
Prerequisite courses
MAE 165 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
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