Learning Outcomes: | Upon successful completion of this course, an attendee will be able to:
-identify and prioritize critical fatigue-prone details;
-recognize details susceptible to fatigue cracking due to secondary stresses and out-of-plane distortion;
-recognize potential fatigue problems which may occur in special situations such as curved bridges, skewed bridges, anchor bolts, and sign structures;
-recognize and understand issues arising during fabrication as related to material, fracture toughness, defects, shop/field repairs, mill scale, tack welds, etc.
-understand differences in redundant and non-redundant bridges;
-become familiar with the most common forms of non-destructive testing (such as UT, dye penetrant, and magnetic particle testing); and
-identify details susceptible to constraint-induced fracture.
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