Abstract :
Summary form only given, as follows. We are interested in receiving tutorial manuscripts on the specifics of failure mechanisms of materials and of fabricated parts. (These manuscripts will be refereed.) The manuscript should discuss the physics, the chemistry, the metallurgy, etc of the way things fail. We are NOT inviting tutorials on probability, statistics, and/or other mathematical procedures and concepts. It is important to designers, especially at the part (nonrepairable) level, to know: What kind of "bad things" to watch out for and to avoid; How to eliminate or to mitigate the effects of those "bad things." We want papers with both of the following attributes: Non-mathematical discussion of the concepts (Albert Einstein said that if you can\´t explain it without the math, then you don??t really understand it). The purpose of this part is to help engineers know what questions to ask; Quantitative discussions of the failure mechanisms (their causes and results). Any quantitative estimates of effects should give some measure of the uncertainty involved. The purpose of this part is to help engineers make accurate and real predictions about reliability. A few years ago, we were publishing one such paper in some issues; look at those to get an idea of what we are after.
