Credit Hours:	3-0-3
Prerequisites:	ME 3201 or MSE 3005
Catalog Description:	Advanced study of failure of structural materials under load, mechanics of fracture, and microscopic and macroscopic aspects of the fracture of engineering materials. Crosslisted with AE, CEE, CHE, and MSE 7772.
Textbook:	T.L. Anderson, Fracture Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications, 2nd Edition, CRC Press, 1994
Instructors:	Iwona Jasiuk (ME), William Johnson (MSE), George Kardomateas (AE), Chris Lynch (ME) (Spring 2004), David McDowell (ME), Richard Neu (ME), Jiamin Qu (ME), Ashok Saxena (MSE), Min Zhou (ME)

Goal:

• To provide an introduction to the analytical techniques and applications of fracture mechanics, with emphasis on cracks in linear elastic materials.

Audience:

• First year graduate students.

 

Topics:

Linear Elastic Analysis
Fundamentals of Fracture Mechanics

Theoretical Strength, Stress Concentrations, Crack tip fields,

Fracture Modes, Fracture Criteria

Mechanisms of Fracture and Crack Growth; Cleavage Fracture, Ductile Fracture
Elastic Crack Tip Fields

Airy Stress Function

Complex variable method

Weight Function Analysis
Fracture Criteria For Elastic Brittle Fracture
Griffith Criterion

Crack Tip Plastic Zone (Small Scale Yielding)

Irwin Correction, Dugdale Approach, Plastic Zone Shape based on K

Energetics

Energy Release Rate, J-Integral

Plane Strain Fracture Toughness
Plane Stress and Transitional Behavior

The R-Curve

The Thickness Effect

Standard Tests

Basic Elements Of Elastic-Plastic Fracture
HRR Fields, J-Integral and Large Scale Yielding

Stable Crack Growth

Applications And Special Topics
Cracks in Anisotropic Solids

Interface Fracture - Composites, Bonded Joints, etc.

Stress Corrosion

Fatigue Crack Propagation

3-Dimensional Cracks

Numerical Methods