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Structural Integrity: Materials Testing - for iPad/Mac/PC

by The Open University

How is safety built into the design of new structures? What sort of tests are used to ascertain the safety of proposed designs? Structural integrity, the study of the safe design and assessment of materials and structures under load, has become crucial in engineering design. Concepts within stress analysis have wide applicability, as there are very few manufactured components and products that do not experience any loading during their life. The tracks on this album demonstrate a selection of specialised tests designed to tell us about the behaviour of materials under certain conditions. They also show how failure assessment can be used to obtain information as to why a component or structure failed, to better inform future designs. This material forms part of the course T357, Structural integrity: designing against failure.

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Episodes

  1. Structural Integrity: Materials Testing

    A short introduction to this album.

  2. Photoelasticity

    A technique that allows us to visualise the magnitude of stress occurring inside a material.

  3. Testing Materials: Beam & Column

    Measuring the response of the material to an applied load.

  4. Drilling holes

    The method for measuring the residual stress profile near the surface of a sample when drilling a hole.

  5. Plane Strain

    Examining the characteristics of plane strain, and the methods used to measure plane strain fracture toughness.

  6. Corus: Specialised Tests

    A company working on toughness testing to improve fabrication methods and develop new uses for materials.

  7. Toughness Testing

    Creating and fracturing a fatigue crack in order to record load and displacement.

  8. Interpreting Results

    Finding out the toughness result of different materials, such as the steel used in pipelines.

  9. Damage Analysis

    How to calculate whether damage has compromised the structural integrity of a pipeline.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

How is safety built into the design of new structures? What sort of tests are used to ascertain the safety of proposed designs? Structural integrity, the study of the safe design and assessment of materials and structures under load, has become crucial in engineering design. Concepts within stress analysis have wide applicability, as there are very few manufactured components and products that do not experience any loading during their life. The tracks on this album demonstrate a selection of specialised tests designed to tell us about the behaviour of materials under certain conditions. They also show how failure assessment can be used to obtain information as to why a component or structure failed, to better inform future designs. This material forms part of the course T357, Structural integrity: designing against failure.

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