Posted on January 31, 2013
This blog entry is decidedly more personal compared to the other items written in the series. These thoughts were developed while preparing for some tasks I’ll be doing through a professional engineering society as a community outreach. I volunteered to give some brief talks to local area K-12 school classes to encourage the students to consider […]
Posted on August 31, 2012
Four primary techniques are used for limiting corrosion rates to practical levels: Material Selection Coatings Cathodic Protection Chemical Corrosion Inhibitors Material selection entails picking an engineering material – either metal alloy or non-metal – that is inherently resistant to the particular corrosive environment and also meets other criteria. Variables that will affect corrosion are established […]
Posted on May 30, 2012
Most often the ultimate failure of a component or device is because of the physical failure of its material. The material (or materials) represents the most fundamental aspect of a product and thus several causative factors may have been involved in the failure. In general, physical failures occur because of four broad categories of reasons: […]
