Course Contents
Materials mechanics basics: Deformation and failure behavior under constant
and variable amplitude loading
Overview on life assessment approaches
Load data analysis and counting methods
Local strain approach ? computer aided fatigue analysis
Nominal stress, structural stress, and notch stress approach, standards
and codes for the proof of strength under cyclic loading
Fatigue crack growth

Literature
Radaj, D., Vormwald, M.: Ermüdungsfestigkeit ? Grundlagen für Ingenieure
Springer, 3rd ed., ISBN 978-3-540-71458-3, 2007

Sustainability Reference of the Course Contents
Structural durability describes the natural law relationship between service life and the magnitude of the stress. The randomly occurring loads of varying magnitude and frequency are captured realistically. The service life is matched to the finite service life. A safety concept limits the user risk to the accepted level. The decisive material-, production- and design-related, operational and environmental influences are taken into account.

[b]Thus, structural durability forms the technical basis of any consideration of the sustainability of built and moving engineering structures.[/b]

Semester: ST 2023