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NASGRO® Course Agenda

Typical Agenda for live Virtual NASGRO Training Course

(Five half-day sessions)

Session 1

  • Course overview
  • Theory and background on fatigue crack growth
  • Introduction to NASGRO and the User Interface
  • Overview of geometry library

Session 2

  • Specifying material properties in NASFLA
  • Load spectrum input
  • Running the analysis and reviewing results
  • Temperature effects on crack growth

Session 3

  • Load interaction models
  • Advanced load spectrum development
  • Failure criteria

Session 4

  • Special topics
  • Small crack features and analysis
  • Residual stress
  • Shakedown

Session 5

  • Material modeling in NASMAT
  • Additional example problems