Lecture
- Introduction into failure analysis
- Fundamentals and performance of failure analysis
- Examination methods
- Failure caused by mechanical working conditions
- Failure caused by thermal loading
- Further failure causes
Laboratory/Exercise
- Documentation of failures in selected components
- Translation of important technical terms English-German
- Performance of first steps of a failure analysis in selected components
- Presentation of failure cases from international literature
- Fracture surface investigation with the scanning electron microscope
