Machinery Failure Analysis Handbook - Sustain Your Operations and Maximize Uptime

Description

Process industries are home to a huge number of machines, most of them critical to the industry mission. Failures of these machines can result in consequences that range from the simple replacement of a cheap bearing to an accident that may cost millions in lost production or cause injuries or pollution. Competition forces corporations to try to keep a pace in optimization. On the machinery side of the history, that means improving efficiencies, reliability, and reducing maintenance cost. Designs and purchase specifications, shop testing, installation, maintenance and operation all play a role in these efforts. The objective of this book is to help anyone involved with machinery reliability, be it in the design of new plants or the maintenance and operation of existing ones, to understand why the process machine fails, so some preventive measures can be taken to avoid another failure of the same kind. Content: Front Matter • Preface • Table of Contents •Part I. Introduction to Failure Analysis 1. Fundamental Causes of Failures 2. Failure Analysis Practice 3. Failure Prevention Efforts •Part II. Failure Modes 4. Ductile and Brittle Fractures 5. Fatigue Fractures 6. Wear 7. Corrosion 8. Incrustation • 9. Electric Discharge Damage •Part III. Machinery Component Failures 10. Shafts 11. Hydrodynamic Bearings 12. Antifriction Bearings 13. Mechanical Seals 14. Bolts 15. Gears 16. Reciprocating Compressor Valves 17. Belt Transmissions 18. Couplings 19. Turbomachinery Blades •Part IV. Case Studies 20. Failure Analysis Examples • Bibliography Index