Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics detail syllabus for Aeronautical Engineering (Aero), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17AE741), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.
For all other aero 7th sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit Aero 7th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. For all other Professional Elective-3 subjects do refer to Professional Elective-3. The detail syllabus for fatigue and fracture mechanics is as follows.
Course Objectives:
This course will enable students to
- Understand the basics of fatigue of structures.
- Comprehend the fracture mechanics.
- Acquire the knowledge of fatigue design and testing.
Module 1
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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
Physical Aspects of Fatigue: Phase in fatigue life, Crack initiation, Crack growth, Final fracture, Dislocations, Fatigue fracture surfaces.
Module 4
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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:
After studying this course, students will be able to:
- Evaluate the fatigue of structures.
- Determine the strength of cracked bodies.
- Distinguish the safe life and fail safe design.
Graduate Attributes (as per NBA):
- Engineering Knowledge.
- Problem Analysis.
- Design / development of solutions
- Interpretation of data.
Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten questions.
- Each full question consists of 16 marks.
- There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
- D. Brock, Elementary Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Noordhoff International Publishing Co., London, 1994.
- J.F. Knott, Fundamentals of Fracture Mechanics, Butterworth & Co., Publishers Ltd., London,1983.
Reference Books:
- W. Barrois and L. Ripley, Fatigue of Aircraft Structures, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1983.
- C.G.Sih, Mechanics of Fracture, Vol.1 Sijthoff and Noordhoff International Publishing Co., Netherland, 1989.
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