Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, 6 credits

The course will cover aspects of fatigue failure for metallic engineering materials. This will include the basic mechanisms of fatigue, the factors that influence fatigue, generation of material data related to fatigue, and fatigue life assessment methods. Both the classical approach and the fracture mechanics approach for fatigue life assessment will be introduced. At the end of the course, a student is expected to be able to explain the important aspects of fatigue in engineering metals, and perform a simple fatigue life assessment.