Expert System for Fatigue Crack Growth Predictions Based on Fatigue Crack Closure

Ji-Ho Song is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea. He received his B.S. (1969), M.S. (1971) and Dr. Engineering (1974) in Mechanical Engineering at Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, under the guidance of Professor Makoto Kikukawa. In 1975, he was Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in Lehrstuhl Mechanik A at Technische Universität München, Germany, with the help of Professor Klaus Heckel. In 1977, he joined Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, and then moved to Osaka University, Japan, in 1982 as Research Associate with the support of Professor Masahiro Jono. He returned to Korea in 1988 as Associate Professor at KAIST on the recommendation of Professor Youn-Yong Earmme, becoming Professor Emeritus in 2011. He received four times departmental outstanding teaching awards. His principal field of research is in fatigue and fatigue-related database and expert system. He published several books: Faigue Crack-Crack Closure and Growth Rate Prediction (in Japanese) in 2005 with Japanese Professor Masahiro Jono, (Translation in Korean) in 2006 with Korean Professor Chung-Youb Kim, Introduction to Reliability Engineering (in Korean) in 2007 with Korean Professor Jun-Hyub Park, Dictionary of Fatigue Fracture and Fatigue Strength of Materials (Fatiguepedia of Materials) (in Korean) in 2011 with Korean Professors Jun-Hyub Park and Chung-Youb Kim, and Korean Researcher Hak-Joo Lee, Fundamentals of Fatigue Analysis (in Korean) in 2016 with Korean Professor Chung-Youb Kim, and Expert System for Fatigue Life Predictions (CD Included) in 2017 with Korean Professors Chung-Youb Kim and Jun-Hyub Park. Fundamentals of Fatigue Analysis(Succeeding Edition) (in Korean) in 2020 with Korean Professor Chung-Youb Kim