SHEFFIELD FRACTURE MECHANICS

Sheffield Fracture Mechanics has trained engineers in structural integrity since 1979. Attending the course is a SQEP requirement for many of our delegates.

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.

The course ends with current practice and future developments in assessment procedures, and a case study that introduces advanced techniques applied to safety cases.

Steve Wheat, Head of Stress at Rolls Royce Submarines, writes: “I attended this course in 1996. It was the best technical course I ever went on. A well-balanced mix of teaching and hands on application in workshop examples. In my current role, I have been sending my team on the course for over ten years. Every single one of them has found it pivotal to their role, and agree with me that it’s the best technical course they’ve ever been on!”

Companies sending delegates include:

ABB, Airbus, Aker Subsea, Alstom, Assystem, ARC, Atkins, Atomic Energy Canada, Avio (Italy), AWE, Axiom, Babcock Canada, Babcock Marine, BAe Systems, Belgian Welding Institute, Blade Energy (USA), BP, Nuclear Safety Commission (Canada), DNV GL, Doosan Babcock, Dow Benelux, Dow Corning, Dowty, EASL, EDF Energy, Edif ERA, Eadon Consulting, E.ON, Engie Laborelec, ERA, ESB Ireland, eStress-Solutions, Expro, Exxon, First Hydro, Frazer-Nash, Freudenberg Oil & Gas (Norway), GKN Aerospace, GE Aviation, Health & Safety Executive, Heerema Marine (Holland), Howco Group, HRL Technology (Australia), J M Huber Corp. (USA), Hyde Group, Jacobs, Joy Mining, Lloyds Register, MACAW Engineering, Magnox, MOD Abbey Wood, National Nuclear Laboratory, National Physical Laboratory, National Oilwell Varco, Nederlandse Gasunie, NRG (Holland), Office for Nuclear Regulation, Padley & Venables, Penspen, Phillips 66, Rolls-Royce Naval Marine, Rosen Group, British Engineering Services, RWE, SABIC, Sandvik, Sellafield, Shell, Siemens, Smulders, Special Metals Wiggin, Subsea7, TNB Research (Malaysia), Total (France), Tractebel Engineering (Belgium), TÜV (Germany), TWI, QinetiQ, Uhde High Pressure (Germany), UKAEA, TU Delft, Vestas (Denmark), Veqter, Westinghouse (Belgium), Wilde Analysis, Wood Group.

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2024 Courses

Both courses are presented in two parts at The Old Hall Hotel in Buxton.

Part 1 from the 15th of October
to the 17th of October.

Part 2 from the 22nd of October
to the 24th of October.

Part 1 from the 29th of October
to the 31st of October.

Part 2 from the 5th of November
to the 7th of November.

Cost £3525+VAT including hotel room and breakfast from Monday night to Thursday morning for both parts of the course, and lunch on each of the six course days.

For delegate travel and course information click: Registered Delegates.

For the timetable: click here.