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Metal fatigue causes a wide majority of structural failures and accidents
in ALL industries. In aerospace for instance, the number is said to be a
whopping 90%. Fracture Mechanics is an indispensable tool we have, to
minimize the occurrence of failures in components that can result in great
loss of life or at the very least will necessitate often expensive repairs. Loss
of profits or erosion of national defense postures will also be the result of
inadequate attention to metal fatigue dangers.
Fracture Mechanics pervades all aspects of material procurement,
product design, development, manufacture, assembly, usage, quality
assurance and maintenance.
The use of Fracture Mechanics and Failure Assessment techniques to
assess performance, reliability and to prevent or minimize potential
failureshasbeenontheriseinvariousindustries.Incorrectmanufacturing
processes and inadequate attention to prevent corrosion and fatigue can
affect the reliability and performance of materials and structures. Early
understanding and detection of flaws or cracks and the understanding of
the tolerance of components and materials enables early understanding
and assessment of reliability and overall integrity of materials that
ultimately reduce crucial failures.
WHY YOU CANNOT MISS THIS EVENT
This Training Program will cover fatigue and fracture principles and provide
an understanding of failure assessments. Delegates will be exposed to
methodologies, techniques and tools in the study and prediction process.
Quality training programs on Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue concepts are
rare, especially in Asia.An added bonus is the hands-on tutorials aided by the
instructor.Product failures can kill people and cause huge expensive losses. You
should be armed with the latest concepts in Fracture Mechanics and Damage
Tolerance to be able to better protect your structures and equipment from
the unrelenting attack by metal fatigue. You will learn these concepts from an
experienced and dynamic leader in the field of Fatigue and Damage Tolerance.
This course is for Engineers involved in materials, design, mechanics, structures,
reliability, pipeline well as those involved in the testing and fabrication side
covering various industries like aviation, oil & gas, utilities, etc.
Fracture Mechanics & Failure
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TESTIMONIALS FROM PREVIOUS CLIENTS
“Sam is an excellent instructor. Every question we asked was
thoroughly answered.”
Engineer, US Navy
“The instructor’s passion for the topic of Fatigue and Fracture
Mechanics is contagious. I learned a lot from this course.”
FAA Inspector
“The handout materials and the worksheets of exercises we
completed in the classroom will be very valuable in my job.”
AIROD Quality Assurance Specialist
“Fatigue is a very important yet complex topic. Sam made it look
simple with clever analogies and focused presentation skills.”
Engineer, NASA
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24 -25 January 2011 / Parkroyal Hotel , Kuala Lumpur
Understanding key principles of Fracture Mechanics and Early Failure Detection
KEY BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
• The Training will provide a powerful, fundamental
understanding of FATIGUE.
• Hands-on Tutorial exercises to solve a number of
practical examples in Fracture Mechanics.
• You will learn how to design and operate safer
equipment in structures.
• Organization will save significant amounts of
money by way of minimization of structural failures,
avoidance of product liability lawsuits, etc.
• Products will enjoy a longer operational life with
course content covering the design, build and
utilize the components and assemblies with greater
resistance to fatigue.
Book and Pay by 30 Nov 2010 - USD 1495

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Sam Kantimathi is based in California. His speciality is
in metal fatigue, fracture mechanics, damage tolerance
analysis. Prior to founding his company, Sam held senior
engineering positions at AeroStructures, Inc and Beech
Aircraft Corporation, where he completed fatigue and
fracture mechanics substantiation of Beechject400,
Commuter Model 1900 and the King Air.
At AeroStructures his responsibilities included fatigue
and fracture mechanic evaluations of helicopter and
fixed wing aircraft structures. He developed and installed
a fatigue crack initiation tracking program for the F-4S
fleet in the US Navy. It was the first sequence-accountable
scheme employed by the Naval Air Development Center
for its quarterly “Structural Appraisal of Fatigue Effects”
(SAFE) reports.
RecentlyhehasconductedcoursesforPrincetonUniversity
and numerous organizations including Boeing Company,
Northwest Airlines, FAA, Singapore Airlines and US Navy,
and dozens of companies in five continents. For 4 recent
years, he was the sole instructor in his workshop at George
Washington University entitled “Minimizing the Danger
of Fatigue in Metals and Composites.” He also prepares
and executes a phenomenally successful course for the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
called “Fracture Mechanics - Aerospace Applications” and
also one on Advanced Fracture Mechanics.
AIAA added his course entitled “Aerospace Structural
Accidents” to its course offerings in 1995. He has
taught graduate and undergraduate courses in design
methods, fatigue, wear, fracture and materials. He is an
Associate Fellow of AIAA and serves on committee E08
on fatigue and fracture of American Society for Testing
and Materials, (ASTM). He belongs to ASM International.
He is also affiliated with American Society for Training
and Development, American Defense Preparedness
Association, and American Helicopter Society. Sam
Kantimathi earned a BS Degree in Mechanical Engineering
from the Indian Institute of Technology and a MS Degree
in Mechanical Engineering from Wichita State University.
Lockheed Martin, MOOG and LORD Corporation are
among the companies that have utilized Sam’s consulting.
About Your Course Leader
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Professionals who work with mechanical design, mechanics and structures
as well as those involved in testing and equipment fabrication.
• Design engineers
• R&D Professionals
• Failure Analyst
• Reliability Specialist
• Materials Engineers
• Scientists
• Quality Assurance Professionals
• Structural Engineers
• Aircraft Engineers
• Airworthiness Officials
• Metallurgists
• Safety Inspectors
• Manufacturing engineers
• Testing Engineers
• Fabrication Specialist
PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
0830 Registration and coffee
0900 Morning session begins
1030 Morning networking break
1300 Networking luncheon
1400 Afternoon session begins
1530 Afternoon networking break
1730 Course concludes
Fracture Mechanics & Failure Assessments
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Session One
Introduction to Fatigue
· What is Fatigue?
· Everything cracks! 170 years of Metal Fatigue. And counting. We will
take a detailed look into some high-profile accidents due to metal
fatigue from the past two centuries. We will discuss the lessons learned.
Session Two
Identifying Fatigue
· How to identify Fatigue failures, Beach marks, Striations
· Microfractography, Macrofractography: Qualitative inferences and
quantitative predictions using fractographic information.
· Pitfalls to avoid while examining components which faked due to metal
fatigue
· Scanning Electron Microscope
· Transmission Electron Microscope
Session Three
Strategies to Combat Fatigue
· Safe Life: The dependency on safety factors and the various
considerations leading to the determination of safety factors.
· Deficiencies in the approach and how to conduct a proper testing
program to help determine safety factors.
· Fail-Safe: Multiple load paths, crack arrest. How this methodology seeks
to overcome the deficiencies of classical safe life paradigms.
· The relative merits and demerits of integral vs non integral stiffeners.
· The need for judicious inspection schemes. An example of the crack
arrest feature.
· Pictorial representation of how the crack arrest potential can be further
enhanced.
· Damage tolerance, fitness of purpose
· A refinement of the fail-safe paradigms.
- How to make your structure and components more damage tolerant.
- The effect of load spectrum. A demonstration of how load interaction
effects, in particular load sequencing, affect the fatigue life.
- Clipping and truncation of fatigue load spectra and their effects on
fatigue life predictions and establishment of inspection intervals.
Session Four
Crack Initiation and Crack Propagation
· SN curves
- The myth of endurance limit
- Different criteria for what constitutes a failure
- Fatigue strengths corresponding to various failure criteria
· Cumulative damage, Miner’s Rule?
- The dangers emanating from an over-reliance on the Palmgren-Miner
Cumulative Damage Hypothesis.
- The alternatives
· Fatigue life estimates
- A demonstration of how the assumptions made would influence the
life prediction.
- Surface finish influences
- Size effects
- The important influence of local notches and the stress concentrations
- Lognormal distribution of fatigue lives and how to apply those
concepts to modifying the SN curves
- Notch sensitivity
- Reliability and Weibull example
Session Five
Fracture Mechanics
· Stress intensity factor: The development of this vital parameter.
Modes I, II and III cracking.
· Beta factor determination: Various tools at our disposal including
finite element methods
· Fracture toughness: Dependence on thickness, temperature, rate of
load application, and grain orientation in structural parts
· Crack growth equations: How these equations are developed and
applied. Experimental determination of crack growth parameters
· Corrosion contributions, SCC
· Example problems on residual strength, critical crack size
Session Six
Testing and Inspection
· ASTM standardized tests
- ASTM E-399
- ASTM E-647
· Ultrasonic, eddy current, x-ray, fluorescent dye penetrant, visual
NDI techniques
· Reliability of NDI: Probability of Detection, POD curves for different
inspection methodologies
· Dynamic effects, design of rollbar in trucks.
Session Seven
Classroom Hands-on Tutorials (please bring a scientific
calculator)
· Back calculation of fatigue life from broken components
· Relative importance of fracture toughness, KIc, da/dN, initial
quality, holes, corrosion, high and low temperatures
· Crack growth life
· Establishment of inspection intervals
Session Eight
Case studies in Fatigue Education and Minimization of
Fatigue Failures.
· Meticulously selected case histories involving actual metal fatigue
incidents
- Power and Communication sector
- Automobiles
- Aircraft and Missiles
- Oil & Gas: Pipelines, refineries and Storage Tanks
Session Nine
Ageing Aircraft Issues
· Continued Airworthiness: Evaluating, assessment and testing for
continued airworthiness in ageing aircrafts
· Multisite damage and widespread fatigue damage
· Zero-timing
· Cold expansion of holes
Session Ten
Review and Conclusions
· Review of the studies and findings over both days.
· Question and answer sessions
· Specific areas of concern can be discussed with group interactive
sessions
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24 - 25 January 2011 | Parkroyal Hotel, Kuala Lumpur - EN 04
Fracture Mechanics & Failure
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