As promised, here is the “quick guide to the initial visual inspection for fracture.”

I recently finished teaching a fairly intense four-day seminar on Failure and Fracture Analysis for our West Michigan ASM International Chapter.

We continue our series on evaluating wear damage.

Our goal here is to determine how the damage is taking place.

For an all-metallic ball bearing, cleaning in solvent in an ultrasonic cleaner can be a good option.

Wear and the science used to study it, tribology, is a complex world at an intersection between science and engineering.

There are a lot of resources available on the subject of failure analysis.

Answering a question without knowing quite a bit about the context is usually where misunderstandings start.

"We don’t see reality as it is. We see it as WE ARE."

In failure-analysis work, we often want to know why the damage happened