Diagnosing torsional fatigue, misalignment wear, and contact stress fatigue (spalling). Failure Mechanisms At-A-Glance Failure Mechanism Primary Visual Indicators Common Root Causes Prevention Strategy Fatigue Beach marks, striations, initiation site Cyclic loading, sharp radiuses, surface roughness Increase fillet radii, shot peening, lower cyclic stress Brittle Fracture Flat surface, chevron patterns, shiny facets Low temperatures, high constraint, material defects Select materials with higher impact toughness (DBTT) Ductile Fracture Necking, dimpled topography, dull appearance Severe overloading, improper cross-sectional design
Occurs with little to no plastic deformation, often catastrophically. It propagates rapidly via cleavage (splitting along specific crystallographic planes) or intergranular cracking (along grain boundaries).
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The deadly combination of a tensile stress and a specific corrosive environment.
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