Fatigue Analysis and FEA
Date for Spring 2024 to be released
15 hour Content
3 week program
Team Account users: €1200
30 Credits
Johannes Homan, MSc & Mart Heerschap, PhD
VILT1001
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Instructor-led
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Course Objective
“Provides a comprehensive understanding of fatigue and analysis methods, giving engineers the tools to understand the fatigue performance of a structure.”
Virtual Instructor-led
100% online training
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5 x 3 hr Sessions
Spread over 3 weeks
PDH Hours qualified course
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About the course
Instructor-led
5 Live sessions
Starts 2023
2 sessions /wk
English
Limited seats
VILT1001
Did you know that the number of structural failures due to fatigue is much larger than due to static overload? Managing and preventing problems due to metal fatigue should be considered a key capability of a structural engineer. Safe operation of your structural asset is important to you; you want to avoid your structure collapsing.
This course fills the gap between textbook theory and fatigue calculations with design codes; teaching participants the fundamentals required to perform a technically sound fatigue analysis. Through knowing these fundamentals of fatigue, participants will be able to identify which factors are good and bad for fatigue, how to improve a design and how to calculate the fatigue life of a structure. In this course participants will learn about both analytical analysis for fatigue and how to use FEA (Finite Element Analysis) for a fatigue analysis.
The course consists of 5 online live sessions with the instructors. All training content is provided through your EngineeringTrainer account.
After the course you maintain 1-year unlimited access to the course, including any new course material. This allows you to perform modules again should you need to refresh your knowledge.
Meet your instructors
Johannes Homan, Msc
Fatigue & Damage Tolerance Specialist
Fatigue Expert, Material Developer & Expert
Program & Details
What is fatigue?
Why is fatigue important?
Fatigue mechanisms & phenomena
Effect of material properties
Impact of mean stresses and type of loading
Stress concentrations
Notch sensitivity
Residual/internal stresses
Fatigue properties of structures
Surface conditions
Environmental factors
Identification of critical locations
Exercises
Load and stress spectra
Cycle counting
Damage accumulation
Accuracy of the approach
Material data
Accounting for geometry
Mean stress correction
Examples
Material data
Accounting for the geometrical features
Impact of stress gradients
Examples
Meshing for a fatigue analysis
Element types, and impact on stress levels
Dealing with singularities
Non-linear analysis
Post processing of results
Verification
Difference between fatigue in welded and non-welded structures
Analysis of a welded joint
FEA analysis of a welded joint
Example
Multi-axial loading
Multi-axial stresses
Principal vs equivalent stresses
Results
After this course, you...
have a solid fundamental understanding of the mechanism of fatigue, and know how to interpret fatigue calculation codes.
know how to identify fatigue critical locations, and are familiar with the analysis methods (both analytical and FEA) so as to be able to predict component life.
understand how fatigue behaviour is impacted by the mean stress, the surface condition, surface treatment and corrosion.
have seen the concepts for damage accumulation and combined fatigue loading.
have a solid overview of how to use FEM optimally for fatigue design studies and fatigue life analysis. You will have seen the importance of selecting appropriate elements and performing an appropriate convergence study.
Who should attend this course
Those involved in structural design or reviewing designs;
Stress engineers
Structural designers
Test engineers
Lead engineers
Engineering managers
Prerequisites:
An understanding of loads and stresses
Basic understanding of material behaviour
Level: Intermediate
This course consists of 5 instructor-led live sessions which consist of presentations, demonstrations, discussions and worked cases. During each session, participants can ask questions to the instructor (through the chat or microphone) which will be answered in the session.
Access to the course
After your purchase is confirmed the course will be available in your EngineeringTrainer account, where you will find the course welcome chapter and instructions on how to join the live sessions. Sessions are held using the software Microsoft Teams and a log-in link is provided for each session through the EngineeringTrainer portal. Live sessions can be joined using any device, including tablets and mobiles.
The live sessions for this course take place at the following times (all times are 24hr clock):
Session 1: Day 1, 13:00 to 16:00 CET
Session 2: Day 2, 13:00 to 16:00 CET
Session 3: Day 3, 13:00 to 16:00 CET
Session 4: Day 4, 13:00 to 16:00 CET
Session 5: Day 5, 13:00 to 16:00 CET
These sessions will include breaks at regular intervals
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FAQ
This course consists of 5 instructor-led live sessions which consist of presentations, demonstrations and discussions of questions. During each live session participants can ask questions to the instructor (through chat or microphone) which will be answered.
Please note that for privacy reasons no recordings of the live sessions are made or provided.
The training material used in the live sessions, for example the slides or exercises, will be available in the EngineeringTrainer portal for a year after the date of the training allowing you to refresh your knowledge or review material if needed.
No, course content is not available for download.
The training material used in the sessions, for example the slides or exercises, will be available in the EngineeringTrainer portal for a year after the date of the training allowing you to refresh your knowledge or review material if needed.
Please note that for privacy reasons no recordings of the live sessions are made or provided.
Yes, interactive Q&A sessions are part of the live sessions in this course and allow you to interact with the instructor and ask questions.
To respect the privacy of the participants the live sessions will not be recorded, and as such the live sessions cannot be played back. Therefore it is important for all participants to block the time slots of the live sessions in their calendars and be present.
No software licenses are provided as part of this course.
Yes, this course qualifies for PDH hours as per the NCEES CPC Guidelines.
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