Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Mühendislik Malzemelerinin Kırılma Mekaniği
	English	Fracture Mechanics of Engineering Materials
Course Code	YAP 607E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Oğuz Güneş
Course Objectives		To provide students with the fundamental knowledge of - Principles of fracture mechanics - Mechanisms of fracture and crack growth in engineering materials - Test methods for determination of fracture properties of materials - Applications of fracture mechanics to engineering materials and structures
Course Description		This course deals with introductory and intermediate level concepts of fracture mechanics applied to engineering materials. Covered topics include theoretical strength calculations, stress concentrations, Griffith criterion; Irwin’s modification to the Griffith theory, mechanism of fracture and crack growth, elastic crack tip stress field, crack tip plastic zone, energy principle, energy release rate criterion for crack growth, stress field equations for modes I, II, and III, superposition of stress intensity factors, mixed mode crack initiation theories, numerical, analytical and experimental methods for the determination of stress intensity factors, elastic-plastic fracture mechanics, experimental techniques, fatigue crack propagation, applications to engineering materials and structures.
Course Outcomes		Students who successfully pass this course gain knowledge, skills and competency in the following areas: - Principles of fracture mechanics - Fracture mechanisms in engineering materials - Test methods for determination of fracture properties of materials - Applications of fracture mechanics to engineering materials and structures
Pre-requisite(s)		None
Required Facilities		None
Other		None
Textbook		No textbook, lecture notes provided.
Other References		Broek, D. (1987), Elementary Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht. Atkins, A.G. and Mai, Y.W., Elastic and Plastic Fracture; Metals, Polymers, Ceramics, Composites and Biological Materials, Ellis Horwood Limited, Chichester, 1986. Kanninen, M.F. and Popelar, C.H. (1985), Advanced Fracture Mechanics, Oxford University Press, New York, 563 pp. Gross, D. and Seelig, T. (2011), Fracture Mechanics with an Introduction to Micromechanics, 2nd Ed., Springer, Dordrecht. Wei, R. (2010), Fracture Mechanics: Integration of Mechanics, Materials Science and Chemistry, Cambridge University Press. Anderson, T.L. (2005), Fracture Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications, 3rd Ed., Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton. Bazant, Z.P. and Planas, J. (1998), Fracture and Size Effect in Concrete and Other Quasibrittle Materials, CRS Press, New York. Karihaloo, B.L. (1995), Fracture Mechanics and Structural Concrete, Longman Scientific and Technical, London.

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