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Sometimes, evaluation of fracture surfaces in the scanning electron microscope reveals features that do not easily fall into any of the classical crack categories.
Figure 2 Figure 2 shows one of the most classical cleavage, or transgranular cracks, that I have ever found in a broken part. The red arrows highlight parallel sets of
Most of the failure analysis we have been talking about on this blog so far is about fractography and, specifically, about fractography that relates to the macro scale
Before closing our discussion from last week, I will share some examples to illustrate the differences between normal ambient-temperature “corrosion-assisted fatigue” and “boiler-lingo corrosion fatigue.”