Engineering Fracture Mechanics is taught from scratch in an accessible and usable way. We are about practical fracture mechanics, hands-on failure assessments, and industry-standard safety cases.

In addition to formal lectures, tutorials and films, delegates work in mixed industry groups on genuine case studies drawn from engineering design and failure assessments in different industrial sectors.

We cover: brittle and ductile fracture (K, J & CTOD), plastic collapse, tearing instability, fatigue crack growth, stress corrosion cracking, R6, BS7910 and other Standards, damage tolerant design, fracture toughness testing, and a host of other useful stuff. We do not cover creep and high temperature fracture.

The course will provide you with the principles of fracture mechanics used to carry out practical design and failure analyses, and the ability to prepare safety cases using state of the art industrial procedures. For complex problems you will be able to identify underlying fracture mechanics issues, ask relevant questions and so commission work needed to progress a problem. You will be capable of understanding and commenting critically on fracture mechanics applied to design and failure analysis in different industries, using both modern and legacy industrial practice.

Our favourite tribute from a delegate is:

This is the first course I have come away from with a feeling that
I can engineer better as a result of the knowledge I have gained.

We only enrol practicing engineers and attending the course is a requirement for SQEP status for some delegates. Our delegates come from organizations such as:

Advantica, AEA Technology, Airbus, AMEC, Assystem, Atkins, Axiom, BAe Systems, Royal & SunAlliance, BNFL, BP, British Energy, ConocoPhillips, Corus, Dow Corning, Dowty, E.ON, eStress-Solutions, Exxon, GKN Aerospace, Health & Safety Executive, Kvaerner, Lloyds Register, Nissan, Nortel, Rolls-Royce Marine, Serco Assurance, Shell, Smiths Aerospace, Tecnatom SA(Madrid), Total, TWI, Weir Strachan & Henshaw, Vickers Defence Systems.