ASM Handbook, Volume 11: Failure Analysis and Prevention is a valuable resource for failure analysts, engineers, and technical personnel who are looking to identify the root cause(s) of failures and to prevent future failures. Volume 11 contains divisions devoted to the practice of failure analysis, tools and techniques, fatigue and fracture, environmental and corrosion-related failures, wear failures, and distortion. The emphasis is on general principles with the widest applicability to situations that the reader is likely to encounter.

The new ASM Handbook, Volume 11: Failure Analysis and Prevention is a valuable resource for failure analysts, engineers, and technical personnel who are looking to identify the root cause(s) of failures and to prevent future failures. The editors and hundreds of authors and peer reviewers worked tirelessly to revise Volume 11 from its 2002 and 1986 editions with the goal to provide the “go-to” reference for those confronted with the failure of a machine or component.

Volume 11 contains divisions devoted to the practice of failure analysis, tools and techniques, fatigue and fracture, environmental and corrosion-related failures, wear failures, and distortion. The emphasis is on general principles with the widest applicability to situations that the reader is likely to encounter.

For the specific considerations associated with common types of components, the companion ASM Handbook, Volume 11A: Analysis and Prevention of Component and Equipment Failures, is available.

CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION TO FAILURE ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION
Introduction to Failure Analysis and Prevention

PRACTICE OF FAILURE ANALYSIS
The Failure Analysis Process: An Overview
How to Organize and Run a Failure Investigation
Determination and Classification of Damage
Examination of Damage and Material Evaluation
Nondestructive Evaluation Applications for Failure Analysis
Bulk and Microscale Composition Analysis
Microfractography and Metallography for Failure Analysis
Mechanical Testing
Stress Analysis and Fracture Mechanics
Finite Element Modeling and Failure Analysis
Modeling and Accident Reconstruction
Data Review, Conclusions, and Report Preparation

TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES IN FAILURE ANALYSIS
Visual Examination and Photography in Failure Analysis
Nondestructive Testing in Failure Analysis
Quantitative Chemical Analysis of Metals Failure Analysis
Metallographic Techniques in Failure Analysis
X-Ray Diffraction Residual Stress Measurement in Failure Analysis
Scanning Electron Microscopy
X-ray Spectroscopy in Failure Analysis
Chemical Characterization of Surfaces

FATIGUE AND FRACTURE
Fracture Appearance and Mechanisms of Deformation and Fracture
Mechanisms and Appearances of Ductile and Brittle Fracture in Metals
Fatigue Fracture Appearances
Intergranular Fracture
Monotonic Overload and Embrittlement
Fatigue Failures
Creep and Stress Rupture Failures
Thermomechanical Fatigue: Mechanisms and Practical Life Analysis

ENVIRONMENTAL AND CORROSION-RELATED FAILURES
Analysis and Prevention of Environmental and Corrosion-Related Failures
Forms of Corrosion
Hydrogen Damage and Embrittlement
Stress-Corrosion Cracking
Liquid Metal and Solid Metal Induced Embrittlement
High-Temperature Corrosion-Related Failures
Biological Corrosion Failures

WEAR FAILURES
Fundamentals of Wear Failures
Abrasive Wear Failures
Adhesive Wear Failures
Fretting Wear Failures
Rolling Contact Fatigue
Impact Wear Failures
Corrosive Wear Failures
Erosive Wear Failures
Liquid Droplet Impingement Erosion

DISTORTION
Analysis of Distortion and Deformation

REFERENCE INFORMATION
Glossary of Terms
Index