Course syllabus

1 Summary

• The course is given by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division of Dynamics.
• Spring/summer of 2026 with integrated lectures/tutorials, 7.5 credit points
• The course is intended to assist you in your research development. Thus, it is fully possible to add scope and lectures to fit your interest.
• Examination in the form of
  • common assignments
  • final major assignment (chosen individually or in a small group) aimed at being parts of later scientific papers
  • oral exam in the form of lectures on the selected topics (major assignments)
  • common discussion during the course setting out from the course material
• Lecturers
• Prof Anders Ekberg
  Chalmers University of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Dynamics/CHARMEC
  e-mail: anders.ekberg@chalmers.se
  phone: +46 31 772 3480
• Prof Lennart Josefson
  Chalmers University of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Computational mechanics and materials engineering /CHARMEC
  e-mail: lennart.josefson@chalmers.se
  phone: +46 31 772 1507

Details on the course is available in the course PM. 

The course literature contains "Topics in material fatigue" (which will be updated during the course) and additional texts available in the Files section under the respective lectures.