Tag
failure
2 posts
April 22, 2026
What a broken part tells you
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.