PWL#053B - Failure Analysis, Root Cause Determination, Physical Survey, Evidence Collection, Witness Information, Metallurgical Investigation, Techniques and more...

Mid January Bulletin

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For a general presentation of this subject you can look at our page on Welding Failures and on a related page on Welding Liability.

Please note that the following Resources are not limited only to failures of Weldments but deal with problems and procedures of investigations in general.

Root cause determination is the part of failure analysis that provides understanding on why the failure occurred and suggests means and procedures to avoid similar occurrences in the future.

A specialized body of knowledge is being built on the failures affecting mass production of electronic devices. Its advancements are reviewed in dedicated yearly Conferences. This aspect was left on purpose out of our interests.

Resources on Failure Analysis (21)

Failure Analysis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_analysis

Failure Analysis
http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/WofMatE/FailureAnaly.htm

A Re-Examination of Failure Analysis and Root Cause Determination (33 pages)
http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/ReExaminationofFailureAnalysisPart12.pdf

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4959.html

Failure Analysis - Industrial Case Studies
http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/sme/interactive_resources/tutorials/FailureAnalysis/index.html

Failure Analysis COMPARE
Constitutive Material Parameter Estimator [A set of software programs usable to characterize material models for finite element analysis] http://www.openchannelfoundation.org/discipline/Failure_Analysis/

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