Tag
failure
2 posts
April 22, 2026
What a broken part tells you
A short note on reading a fracture surface. Beach marks and striations, fatigue versus overload, finding the origin, and why the broken part is the one piece of evidence the analysis can't argue with.
July 9, 2024
A laminate doesn't fail the way a metal does
Metals give you one failure mode to chase. A laminate gives you several at once, and the one that loses the part is usually out of the plane your in-plane criterion can see.