. A stainless steel part is given to you that failed under static loads at elevated temperatures greater than half the melting temperature in air. A young engineer claims after examining the part...
. A stainless steel part is given to you that failed under static loads at elevated temperatures greater than half the melting temperature in air. A young engineer claims after examining the part using SEM that it did not fail by grain boundary cavitation because there were no dimples anywhere on the fracture surface. He then claims that the failure was the result of a processing error. However, it is not clear how long the fracture surface oxidized at elevated temperatures after the failure occurred. How would you check the validity of the engineer's claim?
. A stainless steel part is given to you that failed under static loads at elevated temperatures greater than half the melting temperature in air. A young engineer claims after examining the part using SEM that it did not fail by grain boundary cavitation because there were no dimples anywhere on the fracture surface. He then claims that the failure was the result of a processing error. However, it is not clear how long the fracture surface oxidized at elevated temperatures after the failure occurred. How would you check the validity of the engineer's claim?