Tag
#failure-analysis
2 topics across all disciplines.
Why refractory linings fail — reading the damage back to its cause
Steam spalling, thermal shock, laminations, voids, erosion, chemical attack and anchor failure — what each looks like, and which decision made on site during installation produced it.
Structural failure analysis
How a collapse or a near miss is read backwards to its cause — the four failure signatures the steel itself leaves behind, the sequence an investigation follows before the evidence perishes, the difference between the mechanism and the cause, and why the recommendation that actually prevents recurrence is rarely a technical one.