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The links to pdf's below provide the complete transcript of the presentation notes used in the tutorial sessions for T73S03. The first item is a summary of the topics covered broken down by session. The second listing provides the associated homework questions. Finally the third listing provides my answers to the homework questions. The latter will be unavailable at the start of each course and will be made available for each session's homework when I have submissions from all attendees.

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• Tutorial Notes The numbering system is contiguous with that for T73S04, so the first is No.39,
  • T73S03 Course Syllabus
  • Session #39 Definition of C* and C(t), relationship to J, crack tip fields in creep
  • Session #40A Mechanisms initiating cracks; Input data required for R5V4/5
  • Session #40B Incubation methodologies, sigma-d in detail
  • Session #41 Experimental procedures to find creep crack growth law
  • Session #42 Fatigue crack growth; C* & C(t) estimation for primary loads
  • Session #43 C(t) estimation for primary+secondary loads; service initiated cracks
  • Session #44A CFCG with significant cyclic loading; combinations of bounds
  • Session #44B K-based creep crack growth; growth at low temperature; Safe Lives methodology
  • Session #45 CCG in Ferritic weldments and Transition Joints; ligament rupture
• Homeworks without Answers
  • Session #39 Definition of C* and C(t), relationship to J, crack tip fields in creep
  • Session #40A Mechanisms initiating cracks; Input data required for R5V4/5
  • Session #40B Incubation methodologies, sigma-d in detail
  • Session #41 Experimental procedures to find creep crack growth law
  • Session #42 Fatigue crack growth; C* & C(t) estimation for primary loads
  • Session #43 C(t) estimation for primary+secondary loads; service initiated cracks
  • Session #44A Procedural issues; Combinations of bounds; Prior damage
  • Session #44B K-based creep crack growth; growth at low temperature; Safe Lives methodology
  • Session #45 Effect of hardening on growth; ferritic welds and TJs; ligament rupture
• Homeworks with Answers (loaded/deleted at appropriate times)
  • Session #39 Definition of C* and C(t), relationship to J, crack tip fields in creep
  • Session #40A Mechanisms initiating cracks; Input data required for R5V4/5
  • Session #40B Incubation methodologies, sigma-d in detail
  • Session #41 Experimental procedures to find creep crack growth law
  • Session #42 Fatigue crack growth; C* & C(t) estimation for primary loads
  • Session #43 C(t) estimation for primary+secondary loads; service initiated cracks
  • Session #44A Procedural issues; Combinations of bounds; Prior damage
  • Session #44B K-based creep crack growth; growth at low temperature; Safe Lives methodology
  • Session #45 Effect of hardening on growth; ferritic welds and TJs; ligament rupture

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