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COURSE INFORMATION
Fatigue, Fracture Mechanics, and Damage Tolerance

4 days. Monday - Thursday
Oct 24-27, 2005
Oklahoma City
(Rose State College, Tom Steed Center in Room 202)


Hello,

We are happy to again bring our useful "Fatigue, Fracture Mechanics, and Damage Tolerance" Course to Washington, DC (Pax River), Oklahoma City, Dayton, Hartford, Huntsville, Houston, Montreal, and Cape Canaveral.
 
I hope you are able to take advantage of this, or, if you are already one of our alumni,  your colleagues will be able to attend this off-site course. This will save you a lot of money in travel costs!

Please feel free to forward this email to your friends and colleagues, as well as to your training department. Thanks!

Subject
Fatigue, Fracture Mechanics, and Damage Tolerance of Aircraft Structures

Metal Fatigue causes an estimated 75% or more of all aircraft major repairs and structural accidents. Our flagship Fatigue Course teaches engineers how to prevent Fatigue failures. FATIGUE CONCEPTS has been a world leader in training aircraft structural engineers worldwide ON-SITE for 15 years. Recent FAA regulations require Damage Tolerance Analysis (DTA) of flight-critical components. Also DTA continues to be a fundamental focus in many military aircraft.

Who Should Attend
Aircraft Structural Engineers, Airline and Helicopter Maintenance Engineers and
Senior Technicians, FAA Officials, Design Engineers, Engine Specialists and Materials Engineers

Topics, Syllabi
Fatigue, Fracture Mechanics, & Damage Tolerance
http://www.fatigueconcepts.com/ffmdt.html

The complete syllabus and times are enclosed at the end of this page if you want to print it.

Cost
$1,699 per person Multi-Student Discounts are available. Enroll early and save!

FATIGUE CONCEPTS has successfully conducted many courses at numerous locations all over the world, including well over a dozen in Dayton. If this training is conducted near you, you save thousands of dollars in airline tickets, hotels, meals and per diem expenses. Also, you can tailor it to suit the needs of your company. We are glad to be a part of the solution to your training problems during these days of restricted training budgets.

"The strong point in the course was that we practiced how to apply fatigue concepts in dealing with practical applications."

Thank you for your support,

Sam Kantimathi
President, Fatigue Concepts
sam@fatcon.com
Phone: +1 916 933 5000
Fax:     +1 916 933 5222

Other course dates available

April 11 - 14, 2005 Dayton, OH
April 18 - 21, 2005 Hartford, CT
June 13 - 16, 2005 Huntsville, AL
June 20 - 23, 2005 Houston, TX
July 11 - 14, 2005 Montreal, Quebec
July 18 - 21, 2005 Cape Canaveral, FL

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Tuition Fees

For everyone, except UTC and US Government
$1,699.00 for registration less than 7days before start of class.
Only $1,
599.00 if you enroll and prepay 7-30 days in advance!
Only $1,499.00 if you enroll and prepay more than a month in advance.
Early Bird!!  $1,299.00 if you enroll and prepay 60 days in advance!

For UTC Employees
$1,499.00 for registration and payment less than 60 days before the start of class.
Early Bird!! $1,299.00 if you enroll and prepay 60 days in advance!

For USAF/Tinker Employees
Early Bird extension!! Highly discounted $1299.00 per person for Tinker Engineers if payment is made by end of Friday, October 14, 2005.
$1599.00 per Tinker Engineer with payment after October 14, 2005.

For U.S. Government Employees $1,599.00 for registration less than 7 days before start of class.
Only $1,499.00 if you enroll and prepay 7-30 days in advance!
Only $1,399.00 if you enroll and prepay more than a month in advance.
Early Bird!!  $1,299.00 if you enroll and prepay 60 days in advance!


Multi-Student Discount
Your company may opt to send in 1 student free of tuition cost, for every 3 paid entries received at least 7 days prior to class start date. The individual tuition fees paid by the students or time-frames do not matter, as long as we receive tuition fees with at least 7 days to spare before the class starts.

For example, if your company already paid registration fees for ten students at least seven days before the class, you may send in 10/3 = 3 free students.

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How to enroll www.fatigueconcepts.com/regform.html

COURSE OUTLINE
FATIGUE, FRACTURE MECHANICS & DAMAGE TOLERANCE

A. 150 YEARS OF FATIGUE MISHAPS & Counting! 1 hour
Structural Failure Modes: Creep, Fatigue, Corrosion, Wear, Fretting. Why"High-Strength" Materials Are weak In Fatigue

B. CRACK INITIATION AND PROPAGATION: DESIGN STRATEGIES TO COMBAT FATIGUE 2 hours
What is a FAILURE? USAF-Navy-FAA-NASA Guidelines, Case Study: Cracking In F-16
Fighters: US Navy & USAF Safety Factor Fantasies -- The Chippewa Effect, Infant
Mortality. F-111 Crash: Dawn of FAIL-SAFE Policy Crack Arrest and Multiple Load
Paths Case Study: Sioux City 1989 DC-10 Crash

C. FRACTOGRAPHY 1 hour
Beach Marks, Striations, Demo of Parts Failed by Fatigue

D. CRACK INITIATION PROBLEMS 2 hours
S-N CURVES, Endurance Limit and Fatigue Strength Surface & Size effects, STRESS CONCENTRATION Data, Load Streamlines Analogy, Classroom Exercises in Crack
Initiation

E. MEAN STRESS EFFECTS 1 hour
GOODMAN & HAIGH Diagrams, Design Charts, Problems

F. LOW-CYCLE FATIGUE 2 hours
Neuber Notch Strain Analysis, Example Problems Data For Aerospace Materials

G. MINER'S MYTH 1 hour
Limited Applicability of Cumulative Damage, Dangers in Over-Reliance, Other Methods, Sample Data

H. FRACTURE MECHANICS 5 hours
DA Vinci & Griffith Experiments
The Stress Intensity Factor
Fracture Toughness -- Thickness & Directionality Effects
Residual Strength Paris, Forman, & Walker Equations
Example Crack Growth Calculations
The Principle of Superposition, Compounding, Beta Factors
Exercises using Stress Intensity Factor Handbook
The Surface Crack
Cracked Lugs, Stiffeners
Variable Amplitude Loading; Retardation
Willenborg, Wheeler, and Closure Models
Dynamic Fracture; Adhesives
Multiaxial Loadings -- Mixed Mode Crack Problems

I. CRACKING AT STRUCTURAL HOLES 2 hours
Loaded Holes Solution Methods
Stop-Drill Technical Data
Demo: StopCrack, ForceMate, & Coldworking of Holes

J. DAMAGE TOLERANCE 2 hours
Slow Crack Growth Structure
Multiple Load Path Structure
Continuing Damage & Multi-Site Damage
FAA FAR 25.571 and 1529
USAF MIL-A-83444 & MIL-A-87221A
Demo: Fatigue-Fuse & Krak-Gage
ASIP - Aircraft Structural Integrity Pgm.
Individual Aircraft Tracking -- IATP

K. COMPOSITES 2 hours L. BEARINGS, SHAFTS, SPRINGS, RIVETS 1 hour M. NDE 1 hour
Important Inspection Methods -- Applicability, Reliability, Probability of Detection, Ultra Imaging, MagRubber, Eddy Scan

N. PRESSURE VESSELS 1 hour
ASME Boiler Code, Leak Before Break, Cases: Comet, Aloha Convertible-in-the-sky!

O. LOAD SPECTRUM DEVELOPMENT 1 hour
Sequence Effects, Truncation, Clipping, Retardation

P. CRACK GROWTH Example Calculations 1 hour Q. AGING AIRCRAFT ISSUES 1 hour
FAA, Airlines, Navy, USAF Guidelines, Retrofits

R. SHORT CRACKS 1 hour S. CORROSION FATIGUE 2 hours
Case Study: A Landing Gear Failure

T. FRETTING FATIGUE 1 hour
Case Study: A Helicopter Lug Failure

U. STRESS CORROSION CRACKING 2 hours
Case Study: SCC of an Improperly Repaired Aircraft Structure

V. WELDS-BREEDING GROUND FOR CRACKS 2 hours
Porosity, Residual Stress, Reinforcement, Beta Factors, Hot Cracking, S-N & da/dN Data

W. HELPFUL TREATMENTS & PROCESSES 1 hour
Examples of Bad Design & Improvements, Residual Stress, Demo: Rollscan, Stresscan, Barkhausen Noise, SHOT-PEENING Advantages & Limitations, SHOT PEENING Manual

X. CRACKED PARTS REPAIR PROCEDURES 1 hour
Videos On Boron/Epoxy Repair, Case Study -- Boeing 747 Japan Airlines Crash, 1985

Y. FATIGUE, CRACK GROWTH & DTA TESTS 1 hour
Specimen, Coupon, Component, & Full-Scale Tests ASTM Test Methods E399 & E647, Test Machines

Z. OPTIONALS (enter # in your Registration Form)
Bearings --- Pitting &Spalling Fatigue
Sonic Fatigue
Creep & Thermal Fatigue, Radiation
Weibull Parameters for Reliability
Fatigue in Helicopters
Fatigue of Polymers



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