If, for now, we look at the “classical worst case,” or the outer fiber stress, y is 5.

“Everyone knows” that heat treating steels with a quench-and-temper process can make them stronger.

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.”

Last summer, I was asked to help determine why a relatively new heat exchange that was part of an industrial boiler system had started springing leaks left and right.

Sometimes it seems “pretty obvious” why a failure happened. If you look at a burst pipe, for example, maybe the edges of the split area seem pretty thin, maybe much

Going back to our potential fracture analysis, in addition to the crack itself, other locations on the component and mating components of the assembly often contain key features that allow the failure to be understood.

A thorough failure analysis will provide resources to address many issues in addition to determining whether the component met the requirements of the engineering print and whether there is evidence of “abuse” of the component.

One of my professor-type colleagues recently asked me to start reviewing some scholarly articles for a materials-engineering journal where he serves as an editorial board member. It has been interesting

In this second part, we conclude the discussion of hydrogen embrittlement.

There are probably few types of metallurgical damage that have as much misinformation swirling around as hydrogen embrittlement.