Practical Plant Failure Analysis : a Guide to Understanding Machinery Deterioration and Improving Equipment Reliability.
This is a practical guide for those who do the work of maintaining and improving the reliability of mechanical machinery. It is for engineers and skilled trades personnel who want to understand how failures happen and how the physical causes of the great majority can be readily diagnosed in the fiel...
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CRC Press LLC,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Preface; Author; Chapter 1: An Introduction to Failure Analysis; The Causes of Failures; Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Understanding the Roots; Physical Roots; Human Roots; The Human Error Study; Latent Roots; The Multiple Roots and How They Interact; Why Multiple Roots Are Frequently Missed; The Benefits and Savings; Using Logic Trees; Chapter 1 Summary; bibliography; Chapter 2: Some General Comments on Failure Analysis; The Failure Mechanisms
- How they occur and their appearances.
- When Should a Failure Analysis Be Conducted and How Deeply Should It Go?How Long Should It Last?; Diagnosing the Failure; Finding the Physical Roots; Comments on the Seven Steps
- Continued; Introduction to Materials
- Stresses and Strains; Determining the Failure Mechanisms; The Plant Failure Analysis Laboratory; Chapter 2 Summary; bibliography; Chapter 3: Materials and the Sources of Stresses; Stress; Elasticity; Plasticity; Modulus of Elasticity (Young's Modulus); Toughness; Fatigue; Fatigue Strength vs. Time; Some Basic Metallurgy; Carbon Steels; Iron and Its Alloying Elements.
- SAE Numbering CodeUnderstanding Steel Terminology and Material Designations; Cast Iron; Stainless Steels; Strengthening Metals; Heat Treating; Cold Working; Thermal Expansion; Temperature Effect on Tensile, Fatigue and Yield Strengths; Chapter 3 Summary; bibliography; Chapter 4: Overload Failures; Introduction; Temperature Effects on Overload Failures; Analysis of Ductile Failures; Analysis of Brittle Fractures; Chevron Marks; Unusual Conditions; Brittle Fractures of Ductile Materials; Rapid Force Application; Constrained Materials; Notch Sensitivity of Brittle Materials.
- Three Valuable Brittle Fracture ExamplesA Case Hardened Bell Crank; Brittle Fracture of Two Very Ductile Stainless Bolts; A Great Welding Metallurgy/Brittle Fracture/Failure Analysis Example; Chapter 4 Summary; bibliography; Chapter 5: Fatigue Failures (Part 1): The Basics; Fatigue Failure Categories; Stress Concentrations; Structure Changes Caused by High Cycle Fatigue; Diagnosing a High Cycle Fatigue Failure; Progression Mark Basics; Fracture Growth and Understanding the Source of the Stress
- Rotating Bending vs. Plain Bending; Progression Marks and Varying Stress Levels.
- Progression Marks and Stress ConcentrationsRatchet Marks; Rotating Bending Failures with Multiple Origins; Stress and Stress Concentrations; Fracture Face Contours and Stress Concentrations; Interpreting the Instantaneous Zone (IZ) Shape; Guides to Interpreting the Fatigue Fracture Face; Solving Failure; bibliography; Chapter 6: Fatigue Failures (Part 2): Torsional, Low, and Very Low Cycle, Failure Influences, and Some Fatigue Interpretations; Torsional Fatigue and Failures; River Marks and Fatigue Crack Growth; Plate and Rectangular Member Failures.