Course Description
Concept of elastic stress intensity factor, Griffith energy balance, determination of the elastic field at a sharp crack tip via eigenfunction expansion methods, J integrals analysis, experimental determination of fracture toughness, fatigue crack growth, elastic-plastic crack tip fields. Emphasis on modern numerical methods for determination of stress intensity factors, critical crack sizes and fatigue crack propagation rate predictions.
DE Fee
Engineering Online GRAD
DE Program
MS E
Summer I 10W 2026
Instructors
Meeting Patterns
Classes Start:
May 20, 2026
Classes End:
July 31, 2026
Distance Education:
Yes
Class Days:
[TBA]
Class Type:
Lecture
Credits:
3.00
Restrictions:
Prerequisite: MAE 316 Enrollment for this course is through the Engineering Online Registration System. Go to http://go.ncsu.edu/eol_registration