ME 521 Failure Analysis, Fall 2015
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Microscopy Links: How to Suggestions
Simulation Links: Cornell University Fracture Group
Materials Data Base:
MatWeb
Murphy's Law (the origin)
Class Notes - Overheads
Chapter 2 - Historical Perspectives (PDF)
Links of Historical Technical Accidents
Note: some of these links are of excellent quality, others are not.
National Transportation Safety Board (transportation accidents)
Railroad Accidents:
Historic Railway Accidents
Airline Accidents:
FAA Lessons Learned
Airdisasters.com
NTSB Reports
De Havilland Comet
Comet Summary
Aerospace Accidents:
NASA Apollo 1 Mission
Apollo 13 Accident
Apollo 13 Review Board Report
Challenger - Presidential Commission Report
Challenger - Rogers Commission
JPL Endeavour Report (Hubble)
PBS Hubble info
About Hubble
Space Telescope Science Institute
HST News
Columbia Accident Investigation Report
Astronaut Memorial
Memorial with information about the accidents
Shipping Failures
Titanic Metallurgy
Project Liberty Ship (W.W. II Ships)
USS Scorpion and Thresher
Kursk
Structural Accidents:
MGM Grand Report on the 1980 Fire
Tacoma Narrows Today
Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Industrial and Nuclear
Chernobyl (Dr. Meshkati)
Three Mile Island
Union Carbide - Bhopal, India
Other Sites of Accidents:
Exponent (includes Titanic, Exxon Valdez, others)
Disaster City (several infamous events)