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Items Tagged with 'failure analysis'

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Debbie Aliya

Why did the part fail? (part 1)

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Debbie Aliya
January 12, 2021
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Speaking with greater clarity, why did the subject of the investigation deform or break? Why did some of its material disappear? Why have the strength characteristics become degraded?


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Planning and Writing a Report for a Failure Analysis

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Debbie Aliya
December 9, 2020
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As I plug away at writing the materials-engineering-informed failure-analysis book that has been on and off my “Get it Done!” list since 2003, I have at last come to the part about writing the report.


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How to Think About Failure Analysis of a Thing

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Debbie Aliya
November 2, 2020
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Failure is a loaded word. It implies fault. But the type of failure analysis engineers usually work on is of things.


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Why did it fail?

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Debbie Aliya
October 2, 2020
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So, why did it fail? If the failure is due to mechanical causes, including fracture, wear and deformation, a true answer is always “because the stress exceeded the strength.”


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Debbie Aliya

What is Critical Thinking? (part 5)

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Debbie Aliya
August 17, 2020
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My favorite example is the story of why human-resource people decided that they should discourage people from “using knowledge in the workplace.” Huh? I really did not understand this idea at first.


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What is Critical Thinking? (part 4)

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Debbie Aliya
August 10, 2020
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Debbie Aliya's series on critical thinking continues.


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What is critical thinking? (part 3)

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Debbie Aliya
August 3, 2020
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In the last post (part 2), I discussed my definition of critical thinking. Critical thinking is only one skill set in the “took kit of thinking” that I have developed over the last 25 years. In order of our natural tendencies, I usually list the six basic thinking types as follows.


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Debbie Aliya

What is critical thinking? (part 2)

Debbie
Debbie Aliya
July 6, 2020
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We talked about David Levy’s book Tools of Critical Thinking: Metathoughts for Psychology in part 1. There is no similar book for people involved in failure analysis, although that will change if I ever finish the book I have been working on since 2003.


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Debbie Aliya

What is critical thinking? (part 1)

Debbie
Debbie Aliya
June 25, 2020
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After spending a few years on a LinkedIn Group called “Critical Thinking in the Workplace,” it became clear to me that there was no universally accepted definition of critical thinking. 


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Debbie Aliya

What is the failure analyst doing now?

Debbie
Debbie Aliya
June 8, 2020
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Every once in a while we have large, painful failures that are visible to lots of people.


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