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Failure Analysis: A Different Approach

The document discusses a failure analysis approach that involves determining the mechanism that caused a component to fail by identifying clues. It lists common failure mechanisms like corrosion, wear, and fatigue and stresses the importance of gathering all relevant data through inspection, measurements, interviews and documentation before determining the most likely cause. The goal is to understand why the component stopped functioning by considering its operating environment and interactions with other parts.

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Failure Analysis: A Different Approach

The document discusses a failure analysis approach that involves determining the mechanism that caused a component to fail by identifying clues. It lists common failure mechanisms like corrosion, wear, and fatigue and stresses the importance of gathering all relevant data through inspection, measurements, interviews and documentation before determining the most likely cause. The goal is to understand why the component stopped functioning by considering its operating environment and interactions with other parts.

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Failure

Analysis

A Different
Approach
Concept
• Components fail for a reason
• The reason is a most often a mechanism
• The mechanism leaves clues
• If you find the identify and understand the
clues, you can determine the cause of
failure.
“If all the facts are known, the answer will be
obvious”
What Mechanisms Can Cause A
Component to Fail?
What Mechanisms Can Cause A
Component to Fail?
• Compression • Fracture
• Tension • Fatigue
• Bending • Corrosion
• Shear • Changes in physical
• Wear (2 body) properties
• Wear (3 body) – High temperature
– Low temperature
• Erosion
– Chemical
• Abrasion
• Friction / Adhesion
• Fretting
• Others
Let’s Look at a Block
5 Key Questions
• What is the function of the component?
• What if it stopped doing it’s function?
• What could cause it to stop doing it’s
function?
• How is it affected by the environment?
• How does it interact with neighboring
parts?
Collecting Data
• Have a drawing
• Background information
• Specific time constrained operational
data
• Interview people
• Examine the seal
• Examine to pump
• Examine the system
Collecting Data
• Use forms or other standardized ways of
collecting data
• Take measurements (dimensional and
operational)
• Make sketches of piping systems
• Take pictures
Understanding Basic Failure
Modes
• Many common failure modes
• Do not jump to conclusions
• Gather and analyze all the data
• Make sure all the data supports the conclusion
• Often more than one failure mode is present
• Often one failure modes precedes and masks
subsequent failure modes
• Think in terms of “mechanisms”
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