Root Cause Analysis Of Five Costly Centrifugal Pump Failures
Abstract
Machinery failure analysis and troubleshooting are often pursued in a somewhat haphazard, unstructured fashion. This paper presents a novel, proven, and well focused approach which can quickly lead to the root cause identification of virtually any component t distress. This repeatable method is based on the premise that components fail only if they are subjected to undue force, a reactive environment, time-based exposure, or extreme temperature. However, while these failure mechanisms will tell how and why a failure mode such as brittle fracture, melting, etc., might have occurred in chemical or metallurgical terms, failure mechanisms do not define the root cause of failure.
Description
Lecturepg. 15
Subject
Pumping machineryCollections
Citation
Bloch, Heinz P (1990). Root Cause Analysis Of Five Costly Centrifugal Pump Failures. Turbomachinery Laboratories, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /164265.