Sunday, July 9, 2023

Today's KNOWLEDGE Share:Why did it break

Today's KNOWLEDGE Share:

We see broken plastic parts all the time. Sometimes we understand why and how they failed.

Quite often we don't.


Actually, when failure is of the 'brittle" type, we are often surprised and incapable of predicting that risk.

Did you know that only a VERY SMALL fraction of failed plastic parts fails because of "abuse", i.e. overload ?


How can we then figure out what the hell is happening with the remaining 85 % of failures often leading to customer complaints or significant liabilities ???


Source:Vito Leo

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