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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - EML6570
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2003-09-29
- Department: Mechanical
- College: EN
- Budget Account Number: 210500000
- Contact Person: Thomas Eason
- Phone: 48586
- Email: teason2@eng.usf.edu
- Prefix: EML
- Number: 6570
- Full Title: Principles of Fracture Mechanics
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Fracture Mechanics
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: EML 3500
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: Introduction to the mechanics of brittle and ductile fracture. Linear elastic fracture, elastic-plastic fracture, testing, metals and non-metal materials, and fatigue fracture.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Fundamental course in solid mechanics
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? Teach students the fundamentals necessary to analyze flawed (cracked) structures and understand current research in the area of Fracture Mechanics. Majors: Mechanical and Civil.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, Once.
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Ph.D. with a Solid Mechanics background.
- Objectives: To develop an understanding of the following:
a) Linear Elastic Fracture
b) Elastic-plastic Fracture;
c) Material characteristics that contribute to flaw development
d) Testing for fracture resistance
e) Application of fracture mechanics to structures
f) Fatigue of structures
- Learning Outcomes: Know the foundations of Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics (Williams and Westergaard formulations)
Know the difference between Energy Release Rate and Stress Intensity factor
Estimate plastic zone correction factor
Know the foundations of Elastic-Plastic Fracture Mechanics (Rice’s Approach)
Know when to apply Linear or Elastic-Plastic Fracture Mechanics
Understand the fracture mechanisms in metals
Understand the fracture mechanisms in polymers and composites
Demonstrate the ability to size specimens for fracture mechanics testing
Demonstrate the ability to reduce experimental data into a Fracture Toughness
Know the limits in testing between load and displacement control fracture
Demonstrate the ability to apply fracture mechanics to structures
Know limitations of fracture theory as applied to fatigue.
Demonstrate the ability to apply fracture mechanics to fatigue problems.
- Major Topics: 1 Review of stress, strain, and constitutive relations (for elastic and elastic-plastic) Notes
2 Introduction to Fracture Mechanics. Chapter 1
3 Linear Elastic Chapter 2
4 Elastic-plastic Chapter 3 excluding section 3.6
5 Fracture Mechanisms in Metals Chapter 5
6 Fracture Mechanisms in Non Metals Chapter 6
7 Fracture Toughness testing of Metals Chapter 7
8 Applications to Structures Chapter 9
9 Fatigue Crack Propagation Chapter 10
- Textbooks: Anderson, T. L., Fracture Mechanics, Fundamentals and Applications, 2nd edition.
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.