If you are a manufacturing engineer, component designer, a materials failure analyst, or if you have a general interest in the nature and prevention of engineering failures, you will be interested in the new and substantial revision of ASM Handbook, Volume 11, Failure Analysis and Prevention. The new Volume 11, with a focus on the root causes of failure, describes the principles, practices, and analytical techniques of failure analysis, so that root causes are properly identified and corrected for the ultimate objective of failure prevention.
The newly reorganized Volume 11 begins with sections on the general engineering aspects of failure prevention with coverage on fundamental root causes, materials selection, and the role of design reviews in failure prevention and analysis. Additional sections describe failures related to metals manufacturing operations, and the increasingly important role of life assessment methods in failure prevention. This is followed by a series of additional sections on the failure analysis process, as well as the principles, practices, tools, and techniques used to perform and evaluate failure analysis work and the causes, mechanisms, appearances, and prevention methodology for the four classic types of failure (fracture, corrosion, wear, distortion).
Table of Contents
Engineering Aspects of Failure and Prevention
Introduction to Failure Analysis and Prevention
Materials Selection for Failure Prevention
Design Review for Failure Analysis and Prevention
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
Reliability-Centered Maintenance
Products Liability and Design
Manufacturing Aspects of Failure and Prevention
Failures Related to Metalworking
Failures Related to Casting
Failures Related to Welding
Failures Related to Heat Treating Operations
Structural Life Assessment Methods
Failure Analysis and Life Assessment of Structural Components and Equipment
Failure Assessment Diagrams
Analysis Methods for Probabilistic Life Assessment
Nondestructive Evaluation and Life Assessment
Fatigue-Life Assessment
Elevated-Temperature Life Assessment for Turbine Components, Piping, and Tubing
Principles and Practice of Failure Analysis
The Failure Analysis Process: An Overview
Organization of a Failure Investigation
Conducting a Failure Examination
Determination and Classification of Damage
Examination of Damage and Material Evaluation
Modeling and Accident Reconstruction
Finite Element Modeling in Failure Analysis
Tools and Techniques in Failure Analysis
Practices in Failure Analysis
Photography in Failure Analysis
Chemical Analysis of Metals in Failure Analysis
Characterization of Plastics in Failure Analysis
Stress Analysis and Fracture Mechanics
X-Ray Diffraction Residual Stress Measurement in Failure Analysis
Metallographic Techniques in Failure Analysis
Scanning Electron Microscopy
Chemical Characterizaton of Surfaces
Quantitative Fractography
Fracture
Fracture Appearance and Mechanisms of Deformation and Fracture
Mechanisms and Appearances of Ductile and Brittle Fracture in Metals
Fatigue Fracture Appearances
Intergranular Fracture
Fracture of Plastics
Fracture Modes and Appearances in Ceramics
Overload Failures
Fatigue Failures
Creep and Stress Rupture Failures
Thermomechanical Fatigue: Mechanisms and Practical Life Analysis
Corrosion-Related Failures
Analysis and Prevention of Corrosion-Related Failures
Forms of Corrosion
Effect of Environment on the Performance of Plastics
Corrosion Failures of Industrial Refractories and Technical Ceramics
Hydrogen Damage and Embrittlement
Stress-Corrosion Cracking
Liquid-Metal and Solid-Metal Induced Embrittlement
High-Temperature Corrosion-Related Failures
Biological Corrosion Failures
Wear Failures
Fundamentals of Wear Failures
Abrasive Wear Failures
Fretting Wear Failures
Rolling-Contact Fatigue
Rolling Contact Fatigue of Ceramics
Impact Wear Failures
Spalling from Impact Events
Corrosive Wear Failures
Erosive Wear Failures
Cavitation Erosion
Liquid-Impact Erosion
Wear Failures of Plastics
Wear Failures of Reinforced Polymers
Failures of Shafts
Failures of Sliding Bearings
Failures of Rolling-Element Bearings
Failures of Lifting Equipment
Failures of Mechanical Fasteners
Failures of Springs
Failures of Tools and Dies
Failures of Gears
Failures of Boilers and Related Equipment
Failures of Heat Exchangers
Failures of Pressure Vessels
Failures of Metallic Orthopedic Implants
Failures of Pipelines
Failures of Bridge Components
Failures of Locomotive Axles
Distortion
Analysis of Distortion and Deformation
Supplementary Information
Glossary
Metric Conversion Guide
Abbreviations and Symbols
Directory of Examples of Failure Analysis