NIST Recommended Practice Guide: Fractography of Ceramics and Glasses

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Fractography is a powerful but underutilized tool for the analysis of fractured glasses and ceramics. Fractography can identify the cause of failure and can even provide quantitative informationabout the loading conditions. The goal of this Guide isto make fractographic analysis less an art and more anengineering practice for scientists and engineers. Thisguide emphasizes practical approach for problemsolving and failure analyses. Fractographic analysis isto a large degree pattern recognition. This Guideincludes a wealth of illustrations to aid fractographersin pattern recognition. The guide also includes anextensive bibliography and a tabulation of publishedcase studies so that the reader can pursue topics ofspecific concern.