Modern Metal Fatigue Analysis

Overview: Offers an introduction to modern theories of metal fatigue and their practical application through worked examples and interaction/discussion. There is a strong emphasis on what is possible and the pitfalls to avoid. A professional volume of course notes forms a self-contained reference book.

Content:

• Introduction to fatigue
• Local stress-strain fatigue
• Materials data
• Signal analysis for fatigue
• Using stress-life data
• Stress concentrations, stress gradient and notch sensitivity
• Critical distance methods
• Why biaxial fatigue is important
• Modern biaxial fatigue methods
• Fatigue analysis from finite element models
• Statistics & reliability
• Crack growth analysis
• Fatigue of welded joints, including recent ‘local’ approaches
• Fatigue lives from the PSD
• Fatigue test & design
• Fatigue analysis in practice