MS 243A Course Overview
Fracture of Engineering Materials
Description of the Course
Lecture, four hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, four hours. Requisite: course 143A. Engineering and scientific aspects of crack nucleation, slow crack growth, and unstable fracture. Fracture mechanics, dislocation models, fatigue, fracture in reactive environments, alloy development, fracture-safe design. Letter grading.
Background students will need
Although prerequisites are not enforced for graduate students, it is strongly recommended that each student has taken courses equivalent to Mechanical Behavior of Materials (MSE 143A) or Strength of Materials (MAE 156A).
About the Instructor
Kanji Ono: Professor; B.Engr. Tokyo Institute of Technology; Ph.D. Northwestern University; Postdoctoral research, Northwestern University; Visiting Professor, International Christian University; Director, Tokyo Study Center, University of California Education Abroad Program; Henry M. Howe Medal, American Society for Metals; Achievement Award, American Society for Nondestructive Testing; Achievement Award and Gold Medal Award, Acoustic Emission Working Group; Editor, Journal of Acoustic Emission.
Syllabus
- Technological failure
- Ideal strength
- Cracks and notches
- Ductile fracture
- Fracture mechanics
- Stress field
- Crack-tip plasticity
- Energy balance
- Elastic-plastic fracture
- Test methods
- Fracture mechanisms
- Metal fracture
- Fatigue
- Environmental fracture
- Failure analysis case studies
Textbook
Fracture Mechanics (2nd ed., 2002-2006, Paperback) by M. Janssen, J. Zuidema, R. J.H. Wanhill, VSSD (available at Amazon [from $39.50])
Recommended
Metal Failures: Mechanisms, Analysis, Prevention (2001, Hardcover) by Arthur J. McEvily, J. Wiley (available for UCLA students as free download from UCLA
“digital library)