Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics detailed Syllabus for Aeronautical Engineering (AERO), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information, visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all the other VTU AERO 7th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, visit Aeronautical Engineering 7th Sem 2018 Scheme.
For all the (Professional Elective-2) subjects refer to Professional Elective-2 Scheme. The detail syllabus for fatigue and fracture mechanics is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Module 1
Fatigue of Structures: S.N. curves, Endurance limit, Effect of mean stress, Goodman, Gerber and Soderberg relations and diagrams, Notches and stress concentrations, Neuber’s stress concentration factors, plastic stress concentration factors-Notched S-N curves.
Module 2
Statistical Aspects of Fatigue Behaviour: Low cycle and high cycle fatigue, Coffin-Manson’s relation, Transition life, Cyclic Strain hardening and softening, Analysis of load histories, Cycle counting techniques, Cumulative damage, Miner’s theory, other theories.
Module 3
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Module 4
Fracture Mechanics: Strength of cracked bodies, potential energy and surface energy, Griffith’s theory, Irwin-Orwin extension of Griffith’s theory to ductile materials, Stress analysis of cracked bodies, Effect of thickness on fracture toughness, Stress intensity factors for typical geometries.
Module 5
Fatigue Design and Testing: Safe life and fail safe design philosophies, Importance of Fracture Mechanics in aerospace structure, Application to composite materials and structures.
Course Outcomes:
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Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
- Each full question will be for 20 marks.
- There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub- question covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
- Elementary Engineering Fracture Mechanics D. Brock Noordhoff International Publishing Co., London 1994
- Fundamentals of Fracture Mechanics J.F.Knott Butterworth & Co., Publishers Ltd., London 1983
Reference Books:
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