Mechanical overload
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Mechanical failure modes
- Buckling
- Corrosion
- Corrosion fatigue
- Creep
- Fatigue
- Fouling
- Fracture
- Hydrogen embrittlement
- Impact
- Liquid metal embrittlement
- Mechanical overload
- Metal-induced embrittlement
- Stress corrosion cracking
- Sulfide stress cracking
- Thermal shock
- Wear
- Yielding
The failure or fracture of a product or component as a result of a single event is known as mechanical overload. It is a common failure mode. The terms are used in forensic engineering and structural engineering when analysing product failure. Failure may occur because either the product is weaker than expected owing to a stress concentration, or the applied load is greater than expected and exceeds the normal tensile strength, shear strength or compressive strength of the product.
See also
- Forensic engineering
- Stress analysis
- Structural engineering
References
- Strength of Materials, 3rd edition, Krieger Publishing Company, 1976, by Timoshenko S.,ISBN 0-88275-420-3
- Forensic Materials Engineering: Case Studies by Peter Rhys Lewis, Colin Gagg, Ken Reynolds, CRC Press (2004).
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