Inspection
Work Planning
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The systematic investigation of failed equipment, components or systems to determine the mechanisms and causes of failure.
Failure Analysis is the engineering discipline of examining failed equipment or materials to determine how and why failure occurred. It combines inspection findings, materials examination, operating history, laboratory testing and engineering assessment to identify failure mechanisms, contributing factors and opportunities for preventing recurrence.
Failure Analysis supports improved reliability, maintenance strategies, equipment design and operational performance by providing a technical understanding of equipment failures.
Failure Analysis may include visual examination, nondestructive testing, metallurgical analysis, fractography, laboratory testing and engineering calculations depending on the nature of the failure.
Failure Analysis is broader than Failure Cause Analysis, encompassing the technical examination of failed components as well as determination of the causes and mechanisms of failure.
Reliability Engineering; Mechanical Integrity; Materials Engineering.
Failure investigations.; Mechanical integrity.; Materials engineering.; Reliability improvement.; Equipment design.
IEC 62740
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