Short course/CPD

Failure of Materials and Components (FMC)*

 

Course date: 28 Jan 2013  - 01 Feb 2013

Course overview

Entry requirements: None

Course duration: Five days

Frequency/dates: 28 Jan-1 Feb13.

 
Location
Course fee:

Institutions: £1600  (tuition only)

Individuals: £700  (tuition only)

Full Time Students: £350  (tuition only) 

How to register

To register for this course download an application form, complete and return to:

Miss Jane Sullivan.
Course Co-ordinator
Faculty Services
Cranfield University
Defence Academy College of Management and Technology
Shrivenham, Swindon,
SN6 8LA, UK

T: +44 (0) 1793 314505
E: jsullivan.cu@da.mod.uk
F: +44 (0) 1793 314901

Further information

Course description

The aim of this course is to examine modes of failure in engineering components and to develop the ability to deduce causes of failure from post-failure component examination. On successful completion of the module the student will be able to:
• Identify potential failure modes for an engineering component and deduce the loading types, material, environmental and structural properties, which govern the onset of failure.
• Predict brittle, ductile, fatigue and buckling failure loads for a range of engineering components.
• Recognise indicative facets of a failed component from which can be inferred the source of failure.
• Understand examination of failed components, suggest likely causes of failure and suggest strategies for testing out the failure mode hypothesis.

Content

• Failure modes-ductile, brittle, fatigue, excessive deflection, creep rupture, corrosion, instability etc, loading type, material properties, environmental factors and structural properties governing onset of failure.
• Experimental analysis of failed components-surface inspection, crack inspection techniques, deformation measurement, and residual stress management.

* This short course, which will be taught at MSc standard, is one of the modules that comprise the postgraduate Forensic Programme.