Machinery Failure Analysis Handbook

• Author : Luiz Octavio Amaral Affonso
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 25 November 2013

Understanding why and how failures occur is critical to failure prevention, because even the slightest breakdown can lead to catastrophic loss of life and asset as well as widespread pollution. This book helps anyone involved with machinery reliability, whether in the design of new plants or the maintenance and operation of existing ones, to understand why process equipment fails and thereby prevent similar failures.

• Author : Promita Mukharji
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 2015

"Understanding why and how failures occur is critical to failure prevention, as even the slightest breakdown can lead to catastrophic loss of life and asset as well as widespread pollution. This book helps anyone involved with machinery reliability, whether in the design of new plants or the maintenance and operation of existing ones, to understand why process equipment fails and thereby prevent similar failures. Process industries are home to a huge number of machines, most of them critical to the

• Author : Heinz P. Bloch,Fred K. Geitner
• Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
• Release : 10 December 2012

Solve the machinery failure problems costing you time and money with this classic, comprehensive guide to analysis and troubleshooting Provides detailed, complete and accurate information on anticipating risk of component failure and avoiding equipment downtime Includes numerous photographs of failed parts to ensure you are familiar with the visual evidence you need to recognize Covers proven approaches to failure definition and offers failure identification and analysis methods that can be applied to virtually all problem situations Demonstrates with examples how

• Author : D. G. Ullman
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 29 September 1986

• Author : R. Keith Mobley
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 14 May 2001

Plant engineers are responsible for a wide range of industrial activities, and may work in any industry. This means that breadth of knowledge required by such professionals is so wide that previous books addressing plant engineering have either been limited to only certain subjects or cursory in their treatment of topics. The Plant Engineering Handbook offers comprehensive coverage of an enormous range of subjects which are of vital interest to the plant engineer and anyone connected with industrial operations or

• Author : Neville W. Sachs
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 19 April 2016

Component failures result from a combination of factors involving materials science, mechanics, thermodynamics, corrosion, and tribology. With the right guidance, you don’t have to be an authority in all of these areas to become skilled at diagnosing and preventing failures. Based on the author’s more than thirty years of experience, Practical Plant Failure Analysis: A Guide to Understanding Machinery Deterioration and Improving Equipment Reliability is a down-to-earth guide to improving machinery maintenance and reliability. Illustrated with hundreds of

• Author : Khlefa Alarbe Esaklul
• Publisher : ASM International
• Release : 01 January 1992

Contains 115 never-before published failure analysis case studies contributed by experts from around the world. Contents: Aircraft, Electrical Equipment Fasteners, Ground Transportation, High Temperature, Miscellaneous, Non-Metallic Materials, Process Equipment, Rotating Equipment, Structures. Learn how others have solved failures in various industries such as automotive, aerospace, utilities, oil and gas, petrochemical, biomedical, ground transportation, off-highway vehicles, and more.

• Author : Perry L. Martin
• Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
• Release : 04 February 1999

Offering top-to-bottom coverage of this rapidly developing field; this book encompasses breakthrough techniques and technologies for both components and systems reliability testing; performance evaluation; and liability avoidance. --

• Author : Vishu Shah
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 22 December 2020

Written in easy-to-read and -use format, this book provides a strong training resource and reference for product designers using plastics in their products – helping them identify, quantify, and confirm whether problems are related to product design or process. • Updates coverage of data analysis techniques and examples and expands coverage of failure analysis, key because of increased litigation related to product liability • Overviews plastic testing methods and the framework to investigate causes of plastic part failure • Provides a strong training resource

• Author : Swarup Bag,Christ Prakash Paul,Mayuri Baruah
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 04 February 2023

This book presents the select proceedings of Conference on Research and Developments in Material Processing, Modelling and Characterization (RDMPMC 2020). It highlights the new technologies developed in the generation of rational materials for various applications with tailored properties. It covers fundamental research in emerging materials which includes biomaterials, composites, ceramics, functionally graded materials, energy materials, thin film materials, nanomaterials, nuclear materials, intermetallic, high strength materials, structural materials, super alloys, shape memory alloys and thermally enhanced materials. It includes the numerical modeling

• Author : Jose Luis Otegui
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 02 January 2014

This book addresses the failures of structural elements, i.e. those components whose primary mission is to withstand mechanical loads. The book is intended as a self-contained source for those with different technical grades, engineers and scientists but also technicians in the field can benefit from its reading.

• Author : Heinz P. Bloch,Fred K. Geitner
• Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
• Release : 27 August 2012

Resumen: This newly expanded edition discusses proven approaches to defining causes of machinery failure as well as methods for analyzing and troubleshooting failures.

• Author : Heinz P. Bloch,Fred K. Geitner
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 11 September 1997

This newly expanded edition discusses proven approaches to defining causes of machinery failure as well as methods for analyzing and troubleshooting failures.

• Author : William E. Forsthoffer
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 21 May 2011

Optimize plant asset safety and reliability while minimizing operating costs with this invaluable guide to the engineering, operation and maintenance of rotating equipment Based upon his multi-volume Rotating Equipment Handbooks, Forsthoffer’s Best Practice Handbook for Rotating Machinery summarises, expands and updates the content from these previous books in a convenient all-in-one volume. Offering comprehensive technical coverage and insider information on best practices derived from lessons learned in the engineering, operation and maintenance of a wide array of rotating equipment,

• Author : Heinz P. Bloch,Allan R. Budris
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 07 January 2021

This text explains just how and why the best-of-class pump users are consistently achieving superior run lengths, low maintenance expenditures and unexcelled safety and reliability. Written by practicing engineers whose working career was marked by involvement in pump specification, installation, reliability assessment, component upgrading, maintenance cost reduction, operation, troubleshooting and all conceivable facets of pumping technology, this text describes in detail how to accomplish best-of-class performance and low life cycle cost.