About the book
Design of materials and elements also involves analysing the way they may fail due to the service loads it may expect during its life cycle. Unless a component is analysed properly, designing it as a durable material is not possible. The primary objective of failure analysis is to identify the root cause of a failure (i.e., a root cause), preferably with the aim of eradicating it and ways to prevent this from happening again. Engineers and material scientists quite often utilise failure analysis to understand probable failures that may occur in materials and components of a product assembly. But it is not an easy process, and it involves cost, time, and resources to exactly replicate the failure mode and pattern. Failure mode and effect analysis is a method used to identify every possible mechanism involved in the failure and find the most critical task that will induce failure. Some of the methods in which a failure can be analysed include visual inspection, chemical analysis, failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), surface wear analysis, effect on functional components, mineralogical studies, non-destructive analysis, destructive analysis (compression strength, tensile strength, etc.). Failure analysis is an important topic that is not well understood at all levels and is mostly employed by certain engineering areas.
The goal of this book is to act as a crucial platform for disseminating information related to failure analysis and the methods involved in it.
