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.

Advanced techniques applied to safety cases finish the course through an assessment that compares toughnesses due to an increment of tearing with a constraint-based local approach using only intiation toughness.

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.

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.

Attending the course is a SQEP requirement for many of our delegates.

We enrol practicing engineers from:

Airbus, AMEC, Assystem, Atkins, AWE, Axiom, BAe Systems, BNFL, BP, British Energy, Nuclear Safety Commission (Canada), ConocoPhillips, Corus, Doosan Babcock, Dow Corning, Dowty, E.ON, Expro, eStress-Solutions, Exxon, First Hydro, Frazer-Nash, GKN Aerospace, GL Industrial Services, GE Aviation, Health & Safety Executive, Joy Mining, Kvaerner, Lloyds Register, National Nuclear Laboratory, NRG (Holland), Penspen, Rolls-Royce Naval Marine, Royal & SunAlliance, RWE npower, Sabic Europe, Serco, Shell, Smiths Aerospace, Subsea7, Tecnatom SA (Spain), Total, TWI, Weir Strachan & Henshaw, Vestas Wind Systems (Denmark), Veqter, Westinghouse Electric (Belgium).