• Introduction: historical review and some fatigue damage cases
• Cyclic Stress Strain Behaviour
• Crack Initiation
• Crack Propagation
• Lifetime Behaviour under Cyclic Loading
• Fatigue of Notched Components
• Structural Durability
• Fatigue of composites and compound materials

learning objectives:

The students are able to recognise the deformation and the failure behaviour of materials under cyclic loading and to assign it to the basic microstructural processes. They know the sequence and the development of fatigue damages and can evaluate the initiation and the growth of fatigue cracks.

The students can evaluate the cyclic strength behaviour of materials and components both qualitatively and quantitatively and know the procedures for the assessment of single-stage, multistage and stochastic cyclical loadings.

requirements:

none, basic knowledge in Material Science will be helpful

workload:

regular attendance: 21 hours
self-study: 99 hours

Ein Manuskript, das auch aktuelle Literaturhinweise enthällt, wird in der Vorlesung verteilt.