Fatigue failure: Fatigue failures in pumps - part 1

摘要

Fatigue is, and most surely always will be, a very common cause of failure in industrial machinery such as pumps. Engineers on plant sites should know the basic facts about this type of failure and the type of loads that cause it in order to recognize such failures and take steps to reduce their occurrence. In this first of a short series of articles, Here, Rafael Ocampo revisits the basic theory concerning fatigue.