一、报 告 人
M Neil James 英国普利茅斯大学（Plymouth University）教授
二、报告时间
2019年9月23日 星期一 上午 9:00-11:30 下午2：00-5：00
三、报告地点
浙江工业大学屏峰校区广知C502
四、报告摘要
There has been extensive research into fatigue phenomena and fatigue crack growth for at least 150 years. In the last 30 years the development of very sophisticated experimental techniques and portable high performance computing has greatly increased our ability to monitor crack growth and explore fundamental mechanisms. However, we can still only predict in an approximate way fatigue crack growth and residual lives, particularly for complex structures.
These lectures outline a personal view of some of the reasons why we have not made sufficient progress in understanding of fatigue phenomena and crack growth. The lectures will focus on several areas where current thinking is unclear and/or unresolved. In particular, they will focus on the complexities and approximations in service load assessment that are known to cause inaccuracies in life prediction and on considerations related to obtaining the effective driving force for crack growth and the controversies around crack closure and crack tip shielding.
The overall aim is to highlight, for early career researchers, some important issues that need to be borne in mind in fatigue research or design.
五、报告人简介
英国普利茅斯大学（Plymouth University）教授，海洋科学与工程学院院长。1976年于威特沃特斯兰德大学（University of the Witwatersrand ）获机械工程学士学位；1984年于剑桥大学（University of Cambridge）获冶金和材料科学博士学位。担任谢菲尔德海兰姆大学（Sheffield-Hallam University）、西南交大（Southwest Jiaotong University）、南非曼德拉大学（Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University）、费拉拉大学（University of Ferrara）名誉教授，英国材料、矿物与采矿委员会委员，《International Journal of Fatigue》、《Engineering Failure Analysis》等学术期刊编委。
长期从事结构完整性的设计，涵盖疲劳和断裂、残余应力、疲劳寿命预测等领域。系统研究了疲劳设计方法，通过确定机器设备、结构的失效机理和原因来进行冶金评估、疲劳寿命和断裂韧度测试等研究。以其在故障分析方面的卓著经验，完成了140余份报告的研究分析，发表期刊和会议论文130余篇。
