MAE 165Fatigue and Failure Analysis of Engineering Components
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
From the catalog: “consent of instructor.”
Where it sits in degree plans
One of the options in (2)
- Mechanical Engineering with a Specialization in Materials Science and Engineering (B.S.)
- Mechanical Engineering with a Specialization in Mechanics of Materials (B.S.)