What is Fracture? A fracture is a material split that encompasses the entire cross-section of a material, component, or complex technical system, causing it to fall apart with irregular surfaces....
Category: Failure Analysis
Chloride Stress Corrosion Cracking (CL-SCC) Austenitic Stainless steel or commonly known as 18Cr-8Ni alloys offers very good corrosion resistance. Usually, the chromium is kept above 19% and this...
What are the types of Heat Treatment processes? Usually, heat treatment processes can be divided into annealing, hardening, and quenching/tempering. In this context, the Figure below features the...
What is Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE) & calculation in welding?
What is Coefficient of Thermal expansion or CET? The coefficient of thermal expansion is a measure (change in size over a defined size at a certain temperature) of how much a material expands...
What is Decarburization? Decarburization is a technique of reducing the amount of carbon constituents in a metal (generally steel). The process is the process opposite of carburization, namely...
What is Hot Cracking, Liquation cracking & solidification Cracking?
What is Hot Cracking? Hot cracking is a general term which is quite often used to describe all types of cracking in metals that have originated in higher temperatures. A simple definition for hot...