Failure Analysis: Fatigue Failures

This self-guided digital short course uses helpful visuals, narrated animations, and interactive quizzes to teach fatigue failure, fracture due to cyclic stresses or strains below the tensile strength. Fatigue is among the most common causes of failure. Fatigue failure occurs because loading conditions are too severe, the component geometry is inappropriate, or the material or material condition is inappropriate.

Course Learning Objectives:

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Define the term fatigue and explain the various types of fatigue
• Distinguish between traditional and contemporary fatigue testing
• List and describe the different stages of fatigue
• Correlate fatigue strength with hardness
• Explain the important variables affecting fatigue
• Detail fatigue fractographic features

Course Outline:

• Introduction
• Definition and Types of Fatigue
• Fatigue Testing
• Stages of Fatigue
• Variables Affecting Fatigue
• Fatigue Fractographic Features
• Designing for Fatigue
• Conclusion

Who Should Enrol

• Failure Analysts
• Design Engineers
• Technicians
• Process Engineers
• QA Managers
• Product Development Specialists

 Course Learning Objectives:

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Define the term fatigue and explain the various types of fatigue
• Distinguish between traditional and contemporary fatigue testing
• List and describe the different stages of fatigue
• Correlate fatigue strength with hardness
• Explain the important variables affecting fatigue
• Detail fatigue fractographic features

Things you need to know

Special instructions

Course Length- 1.5-2hrs

Access details- The course will be available for viewing for 60 days from the registration date.

Reference materials included- pdf of the lesson

Communication: Access to course materials requires a unique email address for the student enrolled. All communications concerning the status of the class will be accomplished by email. It is the responsibility of the class registrant to ensure that a valid email address has been supplied and email filter settings are not preventing delivery of emails from ASM International-email.