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AE60036
Course name	FRACTURE MECHANICS
Offered by	Aerospace Engineering
Credits	3
L-T-P	3-0-0
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Prerequisites: AE60005Mechanisms of fracture and crack growth, elastic cracktip stress field, crack-tip plastic zones, stress intensity factor, Energy principle and criteria for crack growth, Plane strain and plane stress fracture toughness, crack-opening displacement criterion, fatigue crack propagation under constant and variable amplitude loading, crack closure, effective stress intensity range, Concept of safe-life, fail-safe and damage tolerance in aircraft design, Linear damage accumulation theory, Aircraft safe fatigue life.

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