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 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.

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 practices.

We end the course with a case study on advanced techniques applied to safety cases using constraint-based local approaches.

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.

Our Company Roll Call includes:

ABB, Advantica, AEA, Airbus, Alcan, Allvac, ALSTOM, AMEC, Andrew Francis Associates, APPH, Armeg, Arup, Assystem, Atkins, Avro International, AWE, Axiom, BA, BAe Systems, BARC (India), Black & Decker, BMT, BNFL Magnox Generation, Bombardier, BP, British Energy, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Carnaud Metal Box, Chevron (Australia), Commercial Testing Services, ConocoPhillips, Corus, De Beers, Doosan Babcock, Dow Corning, Dowty, DSM, Dunlop Aviation, E.ON, Engineeering Analysis, eStress-Solutions, EWI, Expro, Exxon, First Hydro, Frazer-Nash, GE Aviation, GE Energy, GKN Aerospace, GL Industrial Services, Goodwin Steel Castings, HSE, Hyde Group, ICI, Incotest, Indiapro Hartkristall, Jacobs, Joy Mining, Kvaerner, Leyland Technical Centre, Lloyds Register, Lucas Varity, Magnesium Elektron, Mirlees Blackstone, MoD, National Aerospace (Nederlands), National Nuclear Laboratory, NEI Parsons, Nissan, NOV ASEP Elmar, NRG Petten (Holland), Nuvia, Office for Nuclear Regulation, Oxford Magnet Technology, Padley & Venables, Pall Aerospace, PCA Engineers, Peebles Electric Machines, Penspen, Powergen, Redland Technologies, Rolls-Royce Naval Marine, Royal & SunAlliance, Royal Ordnance, RWE Npower, Sabic (Saudi Arabia), Safety & Reliability Directorate, Scandiamant AB, Serco, Shell Global, Short Brothers, Smith-Clayton Forge, Smiths Aerospace, Special Metals Wiggin, Strachan & Henshaw, Subsea7, Tecnatom SA (Spain), Total, TNB Research (Malaysia), TPS Structural Analysis, Tractebel Engineering (Belgium), Transco, TÜV (Germany), TÜV NORD (Germany), TWI, Weir Group, Uhde (Germany), Vestas Technology (Denmark), Veqter, Vickers, Westinghouse Electric (Belgium), Westland Helicopters.

To download a brochure:
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Fail Safe, a book on the history of ideas in Fracture Mechanics, originally published by Fracture Training Associates in association with the Open University, for the OU course T207, is available for free download: click here.