Explain your plans for the Failure Analysis Paper. Include the following questions/issues in your post. These can be answered one by one in concise paragraphs, as briefly as possible without sacrificing needed detail.
Prompt:
What is the case or the recurrent case of failure you will focus on? (You can write on either a historical case or a recurrent case you dont have to write on both). Examples:
Recurrent/Common: I-beam fatigue, bridge piling corrosion, ground pollution in municipal waste systems, software malfunction
Historical cases: the 2020 Michigan dam failure, New Orleans levee system, Tacoma Narrows Bridge
What is at least 1 type/mode of failure about this case you will discuss? Examples: fatigue, stress fracture, program bugs, etc.
Does your field use or rely on destructive or non-destructive methods for analyzing failures?
What are some industry standards (IEEE, ASTM, ISO, etc.) that pertain to your cases failure type(s) or testing methods? (Hint: Look up standards on standards databases; or standards can be found in published reports; or, sources on a case or type of failure can lead you to look up particular standards relevant to failure type.)
Explain your ideas for at least one figure that you plan to use for the Failure Analysis Paper and why they are appropriate to that section of the paper (you can choose to include these actual figures, but this is optional).
In a separate References section in IEEE format, list at least three sources you intend to use for your Failure Analysis Paper (these can be peer-reviewed, trade, or internet sources).