1 The application of the damage tolerance approach requires extensive.- 2 The engineering practice involving damage tolerance.- 3 The damage tolerance numerical techniques for stress analysis of cracked structures.- 4 The current 3D modeling based on energetic approaches.
Sergio Tavares got his doctorate at the Universidade do Porto in 2011, in the frame of the MIT-Portugal programme; his thesis and subsequent R&D work concern integral structures. Paulo de Castro got his PhD at Cranfield Institute of Technology in 1980, and has since worked in fracture and fatigue problems, through a variety of R&D projects as EU SMAAC, ADMIRE and DATON, Al-Li work for ESA, among others.