Introduction:
Mechanical failure analysis is the process of collecting and analysing the data needed to determine the causes of failure of part or all of a piece of equipment. Preventing failure is an important field in the study of materials used in engineering design, and there are many well-known methods for analysing the failure of engineering materials, which helps modify engineering designs to avoid failures as far as possible.
Course target:
Reduce material and human losses when mechanical failures occur, and provide specialists with the real causes of a particular failure so that it is not repeated.
Contents:
- Types of failures.
- Causes of failures
- Material defects.
- Manufacturing defects.
- Assembly and installation errors.
- Maintenance and operation errors.
- Collecting information on parts and samples.
- Tests
- Preliminary test of the failed part.
- Non-destructive testing.
- Mechanical testing.
- Cleaning fracture surfaces
- Macroscopic examination (1 to 100×) of fracture surfaces.
- Microscopic examination (greater than 100×) of fracture surfaces.
- Analysing causes, drawing conclusions and writing the report.