In order to have a good idea of how sound a component is, usually at least two different inspection methods must be employed.

Many types of critical equipment are subject to nondestructive testing methods, which are specified as part of a program to reduce the risk of unexpected structural failure.

It was late at night. An old man was fumbling around at the base of a street lamp. Another person showed up and asked the man what he was doing.“Looking

Last week, we asked about a familiar image. Can you see the hag? Can you see the beautiful lady?

Do you ever wonder about whether what you know is right? Most of us don’t, unless we run into something that forces us to re-evaluate things.

Sometimes, evaluation of fracture surfaces in the scanning electron microscope reveals features that do not easily fall into any of the classical crack categories.

Some people today have trouble telling the difference between science, technology and magic.

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