Advanced fatigue and fracture analysis

Course overview

  • Course codeFTME090
  • ECTS credits7.5
  • DepartmentMECHANICS AND MARITIME SCIENCES
  • Graduate schoolSolid and Structural Mechanics
  • Starts2026-01-30
  • PeriodicityThis course is normally given triannually.
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Nordic Five Tech (N5T)The course is free of charge for PhD students from N5T Universities.
  • ApplicationContact the course coordinator

Course coordinator

About the course

The course sets out from a recapitulation of "classic" fatigue design with emphasis on different fatigue phenomena and key influencing parameters both from a solid mechanics' and a materials' perspective.

Subsequent sections include

•    Fracture mechanics – linear and non-linear, relation to fatigue analyses, computational aspects
•    Growth of short and long fatigue cracks – phenomena, prediction
•    Multiaxial fatigue – high cycle fatigue, low cycle fatigue, crack growth
•    Contact fatigue – contact mechanics, damage mechanisms and damage modes, predictive methods in contact fatigue
•    Thermal effects in fatigue – mechanisms and predictive models for thermal fatigue and creep
•    Additional topics depending on interests of the participants

It is fairly open to adjust the focus (and partly the scope) of the course to fit needs and interests of the participants.

More information
Examination will be in the form of assignments. In addition, each participant is expected to give a lecture on a selected topic with relevance for her/his on-going research.

Estimated 7 times 2 hours lectures + 4 hour seminar + homework related to assignments.

More information

Professor Anders Ekberg Email: anders.ekberg@chalmers.se Phone: 031-772 3480

Literature

Course literature will be selected scientific papers / book extracts, see the course PM.

Lecturer

Professor Anders Ekberg and invited lecturers. Email: anders.ekberg@chalmers.se Phone: 031-772 3480