Durability of materials and structures

In order to develop efficient, reliable and safe products, it is necessary to take into account the damage mechanisms of materials and parts. The topic of this course is how to predict the failure of materials under mechanical loading, taking into account the surrounding, in the field of carriage. Each class of materials having different failure process, damage mechanisms of each one are studied and formalized. This course contains theoretical lectures (fracture mechanics, fatigue,...) and practical works (fractography, acoustic emission,.. ).

Fracture mechanics: material features, stress singularities and energetic criteria. Fatigue of materials: fatigue and endurance domains, factors affecting fatigue life, design against fatigue and crack growth rate laws. Multiaxial fatigue: definition and criteria. Specificity of polymer and composite materials Practical work on fractography: study of the fracture surfaces of parts and determination of the cause of failure. Practical work on the interest of the acoustic emission in the field of structural health monitoring Practical work on the applications of the finite element analysis in failure analysis