Course Details

Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme: Material and Structural Integrity Aspects

Academic Year 2024/25

VDC002 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

The aim of the program is to familiarize students with the selected material and structural aspects – in particular describe material behaviour, methods of measurement of materials properties (including fracture and fatigue) and materials application on civil engineering area. 

1. Introduction to mechanics of material, theory of materials failures

2. Linear elastic fracture mechanics – energy/stress approach

3. Fracture parameters of material.

4. Methods for determination of fracture parameters, function of geometry

5. Fatigue properties of materials

6. Fatigue lifetime prediction – analytical tutorial

7. Numerical analysis in fatigue and fracture

8. Technical excursion on selected fatigue loaded construction

9. Fatigue and fracture testing-tricks and tips from laboratories

 

Credits

3 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Stanislav Seitl, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Structural Mechanics

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

Basic knowledge of structure mechanics, matrix and vector algebra, infinitesimal calculus, fundamentals of numerical mathematics. 

Aims

Lectures are oriented to students of Blended Intensive Programme  with aim to make their knowledge in Material and Structural Integrity Aspects. The topics are selected from the point of view of their application in advance structure analysis. 

Basic Literature

EN 1993-1-1:2005 Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures - Part 1-1: General rules and rules for buildings (cs)
EN 1993-1-9:2005 Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures - Part 1-9: Fatigue (cs)
EN 1993-2:2006 Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures - Part 2: Steel bridges (cs)
Anderson, T.L. (2017). Fracture Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications, Fourth Edition (4th ed.). CRC Press. (cs)
Tada, H., Paul C. Paris a G. R. Irwin. 2000. The stress analysis of cracks handbook. 3rd ed. New York: ASME Press. (cs)
Suresh, S.: Fatigue of Materials (2nd ed.), Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK (1998) (cs)
Pook, L.P., 2000. Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics for Engineers: Theory and Applications 1st ed., London: WIT Press (cs)
Klesnil, M, Lukáš, P., 1992. Fatigue of Metallic Materials. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam. 270 p. (cs)
Schijve, J.: 2003. Fatigue of structures and materials in the 20th century and the state of the art, Int J Fatigue, 25, 679–702. (cs)

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/287715

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  1. Introduction to mechanics of material, theory of materials failures
  2. Linear elastic fracture mechanics – energy/stress approach
  3. Fracture parameters of material.
  4. Methods for determination of fracture parameters, function of geometry
  5. Fatigue properties of materials
  6. Fatigue lifetime prediction – analytical tutorial
  7. Numerical analysis in fatigue and fracture
  8. Technical excursion on selected fatigue loaded construction
  9. Fatigue and fracture testing-tricks and tips from laboratories