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Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
School of Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

van Tonder, F

BIng MIng - Senior Lecturer

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Contact Details:

Telephone number: 012 420 3724
Fax number: 012 362 5087
E-mail address: fvantonder@postino.up.ac.za

Research Interests:

Fatigue, simulation testing and fracture mechanics

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Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Uys PE, Farkas J, Jarmai K, van Tonder F: 2007. Optimisation of a steel tower for a wind turbine structure. Engineering Structures, 29, pp 1337-1342.

Grove AP, van Tonder F, Heyns PS: 2007. A critical investigation of techniques for stress determination and equivalent static analysis in fatigue life estimation. Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, 30, pp 1030-1043, Full Text

 

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