Premature failure of a leaf spring due to improper materials processing

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 161-170

  Mukhopadhyay, N K ^a   Das, S K ^a   Ravikumar, B ^a   Ranganath, V R ^a   Ghosh Chowdhury, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL METALLURGICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Failure analysis; Fatigue crack growth; Quench cracks

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; QUENCHING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

FATIGUE CRACKS;

SPRINGS (COMPONENTS);

CRACK; FAILURE ANALYSIS; SPRING;

EID: 0031231051     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1350-6307(97)00013-7     Document Type: Article

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