Failure Analysis
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The official GTU curriculum for Failure Analysis (subject code DI04021081) as prescribed for Rubber · Semester 4 divides the course into 4 units, covering 15 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (DI04021081)Unit 1 Introduction to Failure Analysis
- 1.1 Importance and need of failure analysis in industries. 1.2 Fundamental causes of material failures (design
- material selection
- service conditions). 1.3 General steps and practices in failure investigation
Unit 2 Types of Failure
- Ductile and Brittle Fracture 2.1 Various types of fractures. 2.2 Ductile fracture: theory
- mechanism, and characteristics (cup-and- cone
- micro void coalescence). 2.3 Brittle fracture: theory
- mechanism, and characteristics (cleavage
- transgranular). 2.4 Ductile-to-brittle transition behavior and factors affecting it
Unit 3 Fatigue and Corrosion Failures
- 3.1 Fatigue failure: stages
- S–N curve, and characterization of fatigue fracture surfaces. 3.2 Types of fatigue: corrosion fatigue
- contact fatigue
- thermal fatigue. 3.3 Corrosion and corrosion-related failures – hydrogen embrittlement
- Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC), and their prevention
Unit 4 High Temperature Failures
- 4.1 Characterization of high-temperature failures. 4.2 Creep mechanism and creep fracture. 4.3 Failures of boilers and pressure vessels. 4.4 Tube failures in thermal power plants – types
- causes, and preventive measures
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