FAILURE The failure of engineering materials is almost always an undesirable event for several reasons; these include human lives that are put in jeopardy, economic losses, and the interference with the availability of products and services. Even though the causes of failure and the behavior of materials may be known, prevention of failures is difficult to guarantee. The usual causes are improper materials selection and processing and inadequate design of the component or its misuse. It is the responsibility of the engineer to anticipate and plan for possible failure and, in the event that failure does occur, to assess its cause and then take appropriate preventive measures against future incidents. There are basically three kinds of material Failure. Fatigue Creep Fracture An oil tanker that fractured in a brittle manner by crack propagation around its girth. FRACTURE Fundamentals of fracture ...
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