Failure Analysis Case Studies II

Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press, 2001. - 444 pp. ISBN: 0-08-043959-4 It is now three years since Elsevier Science published the first book of Failure Analysis Case Studies selected fiom volumes 1,2 and 3 of the journal Engineering Failure Analysis. The book has proved to be a sought-after and widely used source of reference material to help people avoid or analyse engineering failures, design and manufacture for greater safety and economy, and assess operating, maintenance and fitness-for-purpose procedures. Failure Analysis Case Studies I1 comprises 40 case studies describing the analysis of real engineering failures which have been selected from volumes 4, 5 and 6 of Engineering Failure Analysis. The case studies have been arranged in sections according to the specific type of failure mechanism involved. The failure mechanisms covered are overload, creep, brittle fracture, fatigue, environmental attack, environmentally assisted cracking and bearing failures. The book constitutes a reference set of real failure investigations which should be useful to professionals and students in most branches of engineering. Overload failures Creep failures Brittle fracture Fatigue Environmental attack Environmentally assisted cracking Bearing failures Author Index