Understanding Why It Cracked - Nondestructively

Learning Event: Webinar
Original air date: 21 July 2022
Duration: 1 hour
Contact Hours: 1
IACET CEUs: NA
Valid for ASNT Level III recertification: Yes
Pricing:

• Members: Free!
• Nonmembers: $79

Once cracks are found by inspection, the next steps include making repair decisions and contemplating the risks to other components. Yet the gap between discovering and solving the problem is often complicated by the lack of information about the damage. Whether fatigue cracks, corrosion cracks, manufacturing flaws, creep, graphitization, high-temperature hydrogen attack (HTHA), or another damage mode, each requires a different solution—making its diagnosis critical for developing effective solutions. Field replication can be used to nondestructively identify crack types and damage modes. This talk will demonstrate how field metallography can be used to bridge the gap between inspecting to find the problem and diagnosing the crack type needed to develop effective solutions.

Shane graduated with his B.Eng and M.A.Sc in Materials Engineering from McMaster University, Canada. He has performed failure analysis for various employers before founding Steel Image in 2009. Steel Image is a lab-based metallurgical engineering company supporting inspection and reliability efforts by providing failure analysis and on-site crack identification. His experience ranges from refining and mining to energy and automotive. He is the past Ontario Chair of the American Society of Materials, and is the author of Decoding Mechanical Failures and Steel Isn’t Hard (To Learn).

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