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Failure Analysis & Root Cause for Engineers
Published 9/2026
Created by ProjectEngPro Engineering and Project Management
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: All Levels | Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 20 Lectures ( 4h 19m ) | Size: 2.7 GB
Read a fracture surface, preserve evidence and reach a defensible root cause - fatigue, brittle fracture and corrosion
What you'll learn
Read a fracture surface and distinguish ductile, brittle, fatigue and corrosion-assisted failure by appearance Preserve evidence correctly before disturbance, including photography, marking and sectioning decisions Gather the operating, maintenance and material history that most often contains the answer Identify beach marks, striations and ratchet marks and estimate the loading that produced them Recognise stress corrosion cracking, hydrogen damage and corrosion fatigue from the crack path Carry out a systematic visual and macroscopic examination before any laboratory work Judge when metallography, fractography or chemical analysis is justified and what each will answer Separate physical, human and latent causes rather than stopping at the component Test a hypothesis against contradicting evidence and eliminate the alternatives Write a report that separates observation from interpretation and states the certainty the evidence supportsRequirements
No prior failure analysis experience is required - the framework and fracture modes are built from first principles Any engineering or technical background is enough to follow the course No laboratory access needed - the examination techniques are explained rather than practised No software or purchases required Helpful but not essential: familiarity with metallurgy or equipment maintenanceDescription
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
A pump fails. It gets replaced. Four months later the replacement fails the same way.
That sequence happens on every plant, and it happens because the investigation stopped at the component. The bearing was changed, the machine went back into service, and the condition that destroyed it was left exactly as it was.
In this course you will learn how to break that cycle.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN TO DO
By the end of this course you will be able to
● Read a fracture surface and distinguish ductile, brittle, fatigue and corrosion-assisted failure
● Preserve evidence properly before the first component is moved
● Gather the operating, maintenance and material history that usually holds the answer
● Identify the physical, human and latent causes rather than stopping at the first
● Select a root cause technique proportionate to the consequence
● Test a hypothesis against evidence that contradicts it, not only evidence that supports it
● Write a report that separates observation from interpretation and survives challenge
● Turn findings into corrective action that addresses the system, not only the part
HOW THE COURSE IS TAUGHT
● Fracture surfaces described by appearance, so you can identify the mode from what you can see
● Built around real investigation practice rather than technique diagrams
● Honest about the organisational pressures that produce weak investigations
● Five section quizzes and a final exam
● Every presentation is included as a downloadable PDF, so you keep the slides as a desk reference after the course
● Includes what to do when the evidence has already been destroyed
WHAT IS COVERED
● Why investigations fail and what a good one actually delivers
● The investigation framework from immediate response to corrective action
● Evidence preservation, photography, marking and sectioning decisions
● Operating data, maintenance history and material certification as evidence
● Ductile and brittle fracture appearance and how to tell them apart
● Fatigue - beach marks, striations, ratchet marks and estimating the loading
● Stress corrosion cracking, hydrogen damage and corrosion fatigue morphology
● Wear, erosion, overload and creep rupture appearance
● Visual and macroscopic examination - the stage that answers most questions
● Metallography, fractography and electron microscopy, and when each is justified
● Hardness, mechanical testing and chemical analysis
● Physical, human and latent causes and why all three matter
● Root cause techniques and selecting one proportionate to the consequence
● Report writing, corrective action and feeding findings back into inspection and design
WHO THIS IS FOR
● Integrity and inspection engineers investigating equipment failures
● Reliability and maintenance engineers dealing with repeat failures
● Materials and corrosion engineers supporting failure investigations
● Rotating and static equipment engineers who own the equipment that failed
● Anyone who has had to write a failure report that will be read in a dispute
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR
I am a Chartered Engineer (CEng MIMechE) with over fifteen years in oil and gas, energy and industrial infrastructure, across a range of projects and disciplines.
For more than five years I have also been teaching. Close to twenty thousand engineers have taken my courses, which hold an average rating of 4.26 across the catalogue.
I build these courses because I am genuinely interested in how engineering works and why it fails, and because most technical subjects are taught far worse than they need to be. My aim every time is to produce the course I would have wanted when I first met the subject - practical, honest about what actually matters, and free of the padding that wastes your time.
Requirements
No prior failure analysis experience is required - the framework and fracture modes are built from first principles. Any engineering or technical background is enough to follow it.
START NOW
Enrol today and work through it at your own pace, with every presentation available as a downloadable PDF, lifetime access and every future update included.
Who this course is for
Integrity and inspection engineers investigating equipment failures on operating plant Reliability and maintenance engineers dealing with repeat failures they cannot explain Materials and corrosion engineers supporting or leading failure investigations Rotating and static equipment engineers who own the equipment that failed Consultants and analysts producing failure reports that may be read in a dispute Graduate engineers entering integrity, reliability or materials rolesHomepage
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