TY - SER AU - Reitz,Wayne TI - Failure analysis, part I-Theory and engineering PY - 2007/// CY - PB - N1 - La segunda parte de la nota, (enero 2008) presentará distintos casos N2 - Determining the root cause of failure is important. The failed component contains useful information that can save a company money during failure analysis. This article discusses failure analysis in general terms, including typical tools, steps in conducting a failure analysis, theory of crack propagation, and typical failure mechanisms ER -