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ME 7324 - Fatigue Theory and Design

Credits: 3

A senior-graduate course. Includes continuum, statistical, and fracture mechanics treatments of fatigue, stress concentrators, planning and analysis of probit, SNP and response tests, mechanisms of fatigue design, fail-safe versus safe-life design, and crack propagation. Emphasizes the engineering design aspects of fatigue rather than theoretical mechanisms. Prerequisite: ME 3340 or permission of instructor.


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