Understanding How Components Fail, 2nd Edition
Product Description
If you are involved in failure analysis, this is the practical book you need. Basic principles and practices are clearly explained, with numerous examples featuring commonly used metals, parts, and service environments. This classic first edition has been widely used as a primer for those who need to undertake failure investigations. The updated second edition provides expanded coverage of many important failure analysis concepts and analytical techniques.
Contents:
- Techniques of Failure Analysis
- Distortion Failure
- Basic Single-Load Fracture Modes
- Stress Systems Related to Single-Load Fracture of Ductile and Brittle Metals
- Mechanical Properties
- Stress vs. Strength
- Residual Stresses
- Brittle Fracture
- Ductile Fracture
- Fatigue Fracture
- Wear
- Corrosion Failure
- High-Temperature Failure
- Fracture Mechanics
- Glossary
- Index
Edition: Second
Published: 1999
Pages: 293
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