Short course/CPD
Engineering Structural Integrity: Energy and Power Applications
Course date: Please enquire
Course overview
The aim of this course is to provide a general understanding of pertinent issues concerning the use of engineering materials and practical tools for solving structural integrity and structural fitness-for-service problems.
Location
Cranfield University is located at the very heart of the UK – within the innovation triangle between London and the cities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Our central location provides easy access from the M1, excellent main line rail service as well as proximity to key international airports. Set in rolling countryside, Cranfield offers a rich, rural landscape complemented by thriving towns and picturesque villages.
- Road: We are just 10 minutes from Junctions 13 & 14 of the M1 motorway. There is free parking on campus.
- Rail: Milton Keynes or Bedford
- Air: London Luton (22 miles), Heathrow (50 miles) or Birmingham (70 miles).
Course fee:
£2500
Accommodation fee:
£445
Accommodation is on a full-board basis from the evening before the course commences until the afternoon of the last day. The course fee includes a course dinner for all participants and refreshments and lunch during the day. The accommodation fee includes all other meals. Details of arrangements will be in the delegate information pack.
Speakers
Course Director
Department of Offshore, Process & Energy Engineering
School of Engineering
T: +44 (0) 1234 758249
F: +44 (0) 1234 751206
How to register
Further information
For more information on this course or booking details please contact:
Academic Operations Unit
T: + 44 (0) 1234 754192
E: shortcourse@cranfield.ac.uk
Course description
Objectives: The course aims to give delegates the background to oversee the implementation of engineering criticality and structural integrity based fitness-for-service assessments of large steel structures and components through an integrated understanding of engineering materials, fatigue, fracture mechanics, inspection and reliability models, tests and standards
Course arrangements: The course is held over one week, formal lectures presented in the mornings with laboratory and workshop activities in the afternoons.
Who should attend? Practising engineers in industry, particularly in the power and energy sectors, who deal with large steel structures and components. Engineers from the building and construction industry would find this course useful, as would those from the naval architecture and offshore engineering field.
- Design engineers
- Structural design engineers
- Material specification engineers
- Test engineers
- Civil and structural engineers
- Mechanical engineers
- Ship design and stress engineers
- Research engineers
- Stressing and design engineers
- Certification engineers
- Design and technical management personnel
Topics
- Corrosion and protection: basic principles, types of corrosion, methods of protection including cathodic protection
- The metallurgy of welding: basic principles, influence of welding process on microstructure, including use of TTT diagrams to assist prediction of structure and properties, welding defects and their avoidance/mitigation. Emphasis upon steel, but coverage of other alloys.
- Composites and new materials
- Failure criteria and stress analysis
- Fatigue crack initiation
- Derivation of strain energy release rate and stress intensity factor
- Linear elastic fracture mechanics and elasto plastic fracture mechanics
- Evaluation of fracture parameters
- Inspection methods
- Inspection reliability
- Defect assessment
- Fatigue and fracture mechanics of welded components
- Fatigue and fracture mechanics of notched components
For any query regarding our short courses, please email: opee-courses@cranfield.ac.uk
