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Failure Analysis: Case Studies

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Failure analysis is needed as a diagnostic tool to assess the sequence of primary, secondary and perhaps tertiary damage of different parts in a damaged system. This is a prerequisite to identify the contributing causes and the root cause for the causal failure.

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Klinger, C. (2013). Failure Analysis: Case Studies. In: Czichos, H. (eds) Handbook of Technical Diagnostics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25850-3_18

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