Failure Analysis of Engineering Structures: Methodology and by V. Ramachandran

By V. Ramachandran

Failure analysts, practising engineers, and scholars of engineering will locate necessary information and specific examples during this reference paintings at the demanding and intricate job of investigating carrier mess ups and injuries. according to over 4 many years of fieldwork by way of the Failure research and twist of fate research workforce on the nationwide Aerospace Laboratories (Bangalore, India), chapters within the publication disguise universal factors of disasters with quite a few examples, technique of failure research together with a few complex thoughts, a variety of mechanisms of disasters and attribute macroscopic and microscopic gains that supply major clues to their explanations. The authors additionally offer exemplary insurance at the detection and id of wear and tear from explosive sabotage. A separate part with greater than 50 case stories of provider disasters additionally offers beneficial classes for destiny designers, brands, clients, and upkeep body of workers.

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Macroscopic examination after sectioning the bolt-nut assembly in the longitudinal direction and polishing clearly indicated that only a few threads were holding the nut to the bolt (Fig. 5). Further, the welding operation had altered the microstructure of the bolt in the heat affected zone, rendering it brittle. In metal forming operations, the metal flows in specified directions, depending on the tooling and the forces employed. The direction of metal flow can be delineated by revealing the flow-line pattern.

In a plot of the small-punch energy versus test temperature, the average of the upper shelf energy and the lower shelf energy is defined as the small-punch transition temperature, TSP. For a given steel, typically TSP is shifted downward from the Charpy FATT by an amount empirically established. Several correlations between TSP and FATT have been developed for CrMo, CrMoV, and NiCrMoV steels and applied to a range of in-service power plant components such as HP/IP turbine rotors and LP steam turbine disks (Ref 3).

11 SEM fractograph of an intergranular fracture caused by hydrogen embrittlement in a high-strength steel component Fig. 12 Optical microstructure showing (a) transgranular and (b) intergranular crack propagation. Source: Ref 4. With kind permission of Elsevier Publishing Company 30 / Failure Analysis of Engineering Structures: Methodology scan the specimen surface, line by line. The signals emanating from the surface of interest, especially the secondary electrons and the backscattered electrons, produce points of varying intensity to form the image.

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