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Metal Failures: Mechanisms, Analysis, Prevention

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This text provides perhaps the most concise and authoritative resource for the field of Metallurgical Failure Analysis that I have read. Rather than apporaching failures from a cookbook perspective, that is only linking cause to failure through single case histories, this author presents the fundamental concepts of the discipline and suplements them with appropriate examples.After reading the book, I am considering using it a text to a course that previously could only be approached with personal course notes. This is the most comprehensive and fundamentally organized book I have read in years. Well worth twice the price.

I learned fatigue, wear, and stress calculations a long time ago from a variety of sources including Shigley. This is a great book for design and analysis. Great companion is Metals Handbook Vol 10: Failure Analysis and Prevention.

This book has a ton of great information in it; however, it is intended as a course textbook, so it is very heavy on math and derivations. The book is very detailed with equations, but could use more supporting explanation or notation with the pictures. I recommend Brooks and Choudhury's book if you are looking for more of a reference to be used in a professional environment.