Starting with a basic description of the multiple causes of failures, this workshop will emphasize the physical causes and explain how over 85% of all mechanical failures can be solved in the field with minimum complex testing. After a discussion of the metallurgy of common motor and equipment shafts, we will discuss the difference between brittle and ductile materials and how to diagnose whether the failure force was from overload or fatigue. We will delve into diagnosing the specific causes of the failures and look at a series of examples, both with slides and with hands-on pieces. In addition, a series of fastener failures will be reviewed.
A graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology majoring in mechanical and chemical engineering, he has been involved with industrial equipment reliability for over 40 years. Author two books on failure analysis and contributed section to two others and well as more than 40 technical articles and papers on equipment reliability and failure analysis.
