Historical evolution and operation of power plants and petrochemical plants-general description, temperature, pressures and materials, failure in plants-definition of failure
Toughness, DBTT, LEFM, EPFM, temper embrittlement, hydrogen embrittlement, case histories
Mechanisms, parametric extrapolation techniques - LM, OSD, MH, MB and MCM, design rules, cumulative damage, crack growth models, RLA methodology for bulk and localised damages
High and low cycle fatigue, Coffin-Manson relationship, creep fatigue interaction, failure mechanism maps, thermal fatigue (TF), thermal-mechanical fatigue (TMF), thermal- mechanical fatigue life prediction, crack growth in fatigue
Materials, damage mechanisms and RLA of boiler tubes, header, steam pipes, rotors, steam casings, valves and steam chests, steam turbine blades, high temperature bolts. Non destructive assessment methods
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2. Das A.K., ‘Metallurgy of Failure Analysis’, Tata McGraw Hill, 1993
