Failure Analysis and Prevention

ASM Metals Handbook Volume 11, Failure Analysis and Prevention......Page 1
Publication Information and Contributors......Page 2
Introduction to Failure Analysis and Prevention......Page 14
Materials Selection for Failure Prevention......Page 65
Design Review for Failure Analysis and Prevention......Page 98
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis......Page 119
Reliability-Centered Maintenance......Page 139
Products Liability and Design......Page 159
Failures Related to Metalworking......Page 178
Failures Related to Casting......Page 227
Failures Related to Welding......Page 319
Failures Related to Heat Treating Operations......Page 399
Failure Analysis and Life Assessment of Structural Components and Equipment......Page 483
Failure Assessment Diagrams......Page 516
Analysis Methods for Probabilistic Life Assessment......Page 534
Nondestructive Evaluation and Life Assessment......Page 578
Fatigue-Life Assessment......Page 592
Elevated-Temperature Life Assessment for Turbine Components, Piping, and Tubing......Page 618
The Failure Analysis Process: An Overview......Page 667
Organization of a Failure Investigation......Page 683
Conducting a Failure Examination......Page 698
Determination and Classification of Damage......Page 718
Examination of Damage and Material Evaluation......Page 736
Modeling and Accident Reconstruction......Page 785
Finite Element Modeling in Failure Analysis......Page 802
Practices in Failure Analysis......Page 827
Photography in Failure Analysis......Page 868
Chemical Analysis of Metals in Failure Analysis......Page 888
Characterization of Plastics in Failure Analysis......Page 901
Stress Analysis and Fracture Mechanics......Page 952
X-Ray Diffraction Residual Stress Measurement in Failure Analysis......Page 1002
Metallographic Techniques in Failure Analysis......Page 1039
Scanning Electron Microscopy......Page 1072
Chemical Characterization of Surfaces......Page 1093
Quantitative Fractography......Page 1114
Fracture Appearance and Mechanisms of Deformation and Fracture......Page 1162
Mechanisms and Appearances of Ductile and Brittle Fracture in Metals......Page 1231
Fatigue Fracture Appearances......Page 1328
Intergranular Fracture......Page 1349
Fracture of Plastics......Page 1367
Fracture Modes and Appearances in Ceramics......Page 1390
Overload Failures......Page 1413
Fatigue Failures......Page 1470
Creep and Stress Rupture Failures......Page 1530
Thermomechanical Fatigue: Mechanisms and Practical Life Analysis......Page 1552
Analysis and Prevention of Corrosion-Related Failures......Page 1571
Forms of Corrosion......Page 1593
Effect of Environment on the Performance of Plastics......Page 1683
Corrosion Failures of Industrial Refractories and Technical Ceramics*......Page 1693
Hydrogen Damage and Embrittlement......Page 1709
Stress-Corrosion Cracking......Page 1738
Liquid Metal and Solid Metal Induced Embrittlement......Page 1821
High-Temperature Corrosion-Related Failures......Page 1838
Biological Corrosion Failures......Page 1869
Fundamentals of Wear Failures......Page 1916
Abrasive Wear Failures......Page 1926
Fretting Wear Failures......Page 1959
Rolling Contact Fatigue......Page 2009
Rolling-Contact Fatigue of Ceramics......Page 2055
Impact Wear Failures......Page 2076
Spalling from Impact Events......Page 2103
Corrosive Wear Failures......Page 2137
Erosive Wear Failures......Page 2152
Cavitation Erosion......Page 2174
Liquid-Impact Erosion......Page 2204
Wear Failures of Plastics......Page 2222
Wear Failures of Reinforced Polymers......Page 2247
Analysis of Distortion and Deformation......Page 2280
Failures of Manufactured Components and Assemblies......Page 0
Failures of Shafts......Page 2302
Failures of Sliding Bearings......Page 2344
Failures of Rolling-Element Bearings......Page 2361
Failures of Lifting Equipment......Page 2410
Failures of Mechanical Fasteners......Page 2443
Failures of Springs......Page 2479
Failures of Tools and Dies......Page 2505
Failures of Gears......Page 2558
Failures of Boilers and Related Equipment......Page 2604
Failures of Heat Exchangers......Page 2655
Failures of Pressure Vessels......Page 2686
Failures of Metallic Orthopedic Implants......Page 2740
Failures of Pipelines......Page 2791
Failures of Bridge Components......Page 2818
Failures of Locomotive Axles......Page 2839
Glossary......Page 2873