Failure Prevention Through Education Getting to the Root Cause Book

	Problem Solving Methods	3
	The Interdisciplinary Nature of Failure Analysis	9
	Are We Ready to Hear What "Failure" Has to Say?	15
	Legal Definition of a Product Failure: What the Law Requires of the Designer and the Manufacturer	25
	The Necessities and Limitations of Codes, Standards and Test Methods: "In-Specification" Failures	30
	Challenges in Comprehensive Failure Analysis on a Complex System	35
	Ten Critical Factors in the Design Process	49
	New Tools for Design	56
	Designing for Failure: Managing the Failure Response through Analysis	62
	Scientific Materials Selection Processses	70
	What the Design Engineer Needs to Know about Materials Variations and Specifications	83
	What You Need to Know about Using Forgings	90
	How to Work with Your Heat Treater: Capabilities of Common Heat Treat Processes	99
	Put It in the Drawing and Make It Like the Drawing	109
	Preventing Failures Resulting from Machining Issues	118
	Steam Line Rupture at Tennessee Eastman Division, 11/3/98	124
	What You Need to Know about Finishing Processes	131
	Unanticipated Service Conditions	141
	Introduction to Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)	149