Number of hours
- Lectures 27.0
- Projects -
- Tutorials -
- Internship -
- Laboratory works -
- Written tests 2.0
ECTS
ECTS 0.3
Goal(s)
Understanding the mechanisms responsible for the creep and fatigue life of inorganic materials under severe conditions.
Content(s)
1 Fatigue of Metals and Alloys
1.1 Fatigue loadings
1.2 Crack nucleation and Low Cycle Fatigue
1.3 Crack Propagation
1.4 Impact of conditions : temperature, atmosphere
1.5 Fatigue failure
2 Elementary Mechanisms
2.1 Creepdiagram: effect of stress and effect of temperature
2.2 Creep micro-mechanisms : disclocation glide, disclotation climb, lattice diffusion, grain boundary diffusion, grain boundary sliding
2.3 Creep laws
2.4 Microstructural evolutions under creep
2.5 Creep maps
2.6 Superplasticity
3 Creep life
3.1 Cavitation, cracking et failure
3.2 Empirical approaches
3.3 Fatigue-Creep interaction
4 Case study
4.1 Turbine blade for aircraft
4.2 Creep of Zr-alloys:application to nuclear energy
This course is illustrated by two conferences given by engineers from AREVA and AUBERT&DUVAL.
Prerequisites- KAMA6M13: Physical Metallurgy
- KAMA7M06: Mechanical Metallurgy
Test
EXAM
Calendar
The course exists in the following branches:
- Curriculum - MAT - Semester 9
Additional Information
Course ID : KAMA9M11
Course language(s): 
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Bibliography
G.E. Dieter "Mechanical Metallurgy" SI Metric Edition, McGraw-Hill Book Company (1988)
D. Hull and D.J. Bacon "Introduction to dislocations" 3rd Edition, Butterworth Heinemann (1984)