Structural Design: Overview

Structural Design Process

Failure Mechanisms
High-Cycle Fatigue
Low-Cycle Fatigue
Fatigue Crack Propagation
The Nature of Fracture
Classification of Fracture Mechanics Regimes
Linear-Elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM)
Elastic-Plastic Fracture Mechanics (EPFM): J Integral, CTOD
Time-Dependent Fracture Mechanics (TDFM)
The Fracture Mechanics Approach to Design
Slow vs. Fast Crack Growth
Elastic vs. Plastic
Brittle vs. Ductile
Macroscopic vs. Microscopic
Historical Aspects
The Evolution of Structural Design
Solid Mechanics: A Brief Overview
LEFM (Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics) Energy Approach
The Ideal Strength and Mechanisms of Failure
An Atomic View of Fracture
Stress Concentration of an Elliptic Hole
The Energy Approach
Griffith's Work
Griffith's Modification
Irwin's Work: Role of Plasticity
Strain Energy Release Rate: G
G Measurement: Calculation
Practice Problem/Case Study
Load Control vs. Displacement Control
Estimation of G: Experiment
Estimation of G: Analytical Approach
Instability and R Curve
R-Curve Shape
Crack Branching
Crack Arrest
LEFM: Stress Intensity Approach
Stress Intensity Approach to Fracture Mechanics
Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM)
Basic Modes of Fracture
State of Stress and Displacements near Crack Tip
Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM)
Stress Intensity Solutions
Finite Size Effect
Principle of Superposition
Design Philosophy Based on LEFM
Practice Problem/Case Study
Techniques for Calculation of the Stress Intensity Factors
Numerical Determination of SIF
Relationship between K and G
Crack Tip Plasticity
Plastic Zone
Plastic Zone Size Estimation
Irwin's Method
Strip Yield Model
Stress Intensity Estimation
Plastic Zone Shape
Plane Stress/Plane Strain Transition: Triaxial State of Stress
Fracture Criterion, KI = KIC
Validity and Size Limitations for Use of KI = KIC
Small Scale Yielding: SSY
Critical Crack Size, ac Design Philosophy
LBB (Leak Before Burst)
Practice Problem
Experimental Determination of SIF (Stress Intensity Factor)
Strain Gage Method
Photoelasticity Method
Fracture Toughness Testing
Plane Strain Fracture Toughness
Test Technique: KIC Measurement
ASTM Specimen Test Standards
Case Study/Practice Problem
Present Challenge in the Satellite Industry
EPFM (Elastic-Plastic Fracture Mechanics)
Elastic-Plastic Parameters
CTOD (Crack Tip Opening Displacement)
Irwin's Model
Strip-Yield Model
CTOD: G (J) relationship
J-Integral
Characteristics of J-Integral
J as Stress Intensity Parameter
Fully Plastic Analysis
Size Limitations: Validity of J
Irwin's Method
Strip Yield Model
Determination of the J-Integral
Laboratory Measurement of J
JIC Test Methods
Determination of KIC from JIC
JIC measurement
Experimental Determination of Critical CTOD
HRR Singularity and Small-Scale Yielding (SSY)
Energy Release Rate: Dynamic Definition
Crack Speed
Codes and Standards
FAD Diagram
R6 Approach
Fatigue Crack Propagation
Fatigue
Fatigue Crack Nucleation and Formation
Early Design: Significance of NDE and Material Selection
Fracture Surface
High-Cycle Fatigue: Classical Fatigue Approach
Time-Varying Stress or Cumulative Damage
Low-Cycle Fatigue: Stress-Strain Life Approach
Practice Problem
Crack Propagation Aspects in Fatigue
Short Cracks
Crack Closure
Crack Tip Shielding
Fatigue Testing
Tools
Case Study
Future Work and Technologies
Creep: Time-Dependent Crack Growth, Environmentally Assisted Cracking, Probabili
stic Failure Analysis (EAC)
Creep
Creep Mechanism
Creep Crack Growth
Environmentally Assisted Cracking (EAC)
Environmentally Assisted Sub-Critical Crack Growth
Environmentally Assisted Sustained Load Cracking
Mechanisms of EAC
Fracture Mechanics Approach to EAC Growth
V-KI curve
Methods of Determining da/dt and KISCC
Case Study
Probabilistic Failure Analysis