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Course on Design Principles, Fatigue & Damage Tolerance for Aeronautical Engineers

Submitted by pragtic on

Dear iMechanicians,

Please note that a 6 day course for aeronautical engineers on design principles, fatigue and damage tolerance will be realized during October and November 2014 in Czech Republic. The course is split to two blocks: Part I - Design Principles; Part II - Fatigue & Damage Tolerance run in the period October 20-22 and November 11-13 respectively.

Why fracture and failure mechanics is so important? From Southwest Boeing 737 cracks to future Boeing 787 safety

Submitted by L. Roy Xu on

Even Jay Leno tried to understand fatigue cracks at his Yesterday’s Tonight Show, our research on fracture and failure mechanics is received great attention from the general public. Read more after this photo--