Fractography and Failure Analysis

von: Jorge Luis González-Velázquez

Springer-Verlag, 2018

ISBN: 9783319766515 , 172 Seiten

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Fractography and Failure Analysis


 

Preface

6

Contents

9

1 The Fractographic Examination

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Abstract

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1.1 Introduction

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1.2 Methodology of the Fractographic Examination

15

1.3 Cleaning and Care of Fractures

18

1.3.1 Fracture Handling

18

1.3.2 Cutting of Fractured Pieces

19

1.3.3 Fracture Cleaning

21

1.3.4 Preservation of Fractures

23

1.4 Photographing Fractures

23

1.5 Replicas

28

2 Elements of Fractography

32

Abstract

32

2.1 Classification of Fractures

32

2.2 Mechanical Aspects of Fracture

35

2.3 General Fracture Model

38

2.4 Fracture Lines

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2.4.1 Types of Fracture Line

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2.4.2 Chevrons

40

2.4.3 Beach Marks

43

2.4.4 Ratchet Marks and Ridges

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2.4.5 Shear Lips

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2.5 Macroscopic Cleavage

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2.6 Multiple Cracking

50

2.7 Microscopic Fractography

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2.8 Fracture Micromechanisms

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3 Brittle and Ductile Fractures

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Abstract

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3.1 Brittle Fracture

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3.1.1 Cleavage

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3.1.2 Quasi-Cleavage

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3.1.3 Pseudo-Cleavage

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3.1.4 Cleavage in Amorphous Materials

67

3.1.5 Intergranular Brittle Fractures

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3.2 Ductile Fractures

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3.2.1 Macroscopic Appearance of Ductile Fractures

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3.2.2 Ductile Fracture Mechanism

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3.2.3 Void Nucleation and Growth Mechanisms

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3.2.4 Ductile-Brittle Transition

77

3.2.5 Ductile-Brittle Combined Fractures

79

4 Fatigue Fracture

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Abstract

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4.1 General Aspects of Fatigue

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4.2 Fractography of Stage I Fatigue

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4.2.1 Macroscopic Characteristics of Stage I Fatigue

87

4.2.2 Microscopic Characteristics of Stage I Fatigue

88

4.2.3 Fatigue Crack Nucleation Mechanisms

88

4.3 Fractography of Stage II Fatigue

93

4.3.1 Macroscopic Characteristics of Stage II Fatigue

93

4.3.2 Microscopic Characteristics of Stage II Fatigue

95

4.3.3 Striation Formation Mechanisms

99

4.3.4 Fractographic Characteristics of Stage II Fatigue Fracture in the Absence of Striations

101

4.4 Corrosion-Fatigue

102

5 Environmentally-Assisted Fracture

105

Abstract

105

5.1 General Aspects of Environmentally-Assisted Fracture

105

5.2 Fundamentals of Metal Corrosion

108

5.3 Stress Corrosion Cracking

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5.3.1 Mechanical Aspects of Stress Corrosion Cracking

112

5.3.2 Characteristics of SCC Fractures

114

5.3.3 SCC Mechanisms

118

5.4 Creep Fracture

119

5.4.1 General Aspects of Creep Fracture

119

5.4.2 Creep Fracture Mechanism

121

5.4.3 Creep Crack Growth

123

5.5 Hydrogen-Induced Cracking

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5.5.1 Hydrogen-Induced Cracking Mechanism

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5.5.2 Fractography of Hydrogen-Induced Cracking

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5.5.3 Mechanical Aspects and Kinetics of Hydrogen-Induced Cracking

130

6 Failure Analysis of Fractured Components

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Abstract

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6.1 Definitions of Failure

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6.2 Procedure for the Analysis of Mechanical Failures

134

6.2.1 The ASTM E2332 Procedure

134

6.2.2 Failure Analysis Ethics

135

6.3 Failure Analysis Procedure of Fractured Components

137

6.4 Failure Analysis and Fracture Mehanics

148

6.4.1 Continuum Mechanics Yield Criteria

148

6.4.2 Linear-Elastic Fracture Mechanics

150

6.4.3 The Two-Parameter Criterion

151

6.4.4 Relation Between Fractography and Fracture Mechanics

153

6.5 Examples of Failure Analysis

153

6.5.1 Failure of a Diesel Engine

153

6.5.2 Fracture of a Cement Mill Reducer

160

6.5.3 In-Service Rupture of a Gasoline Pipeline

165

References

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