Failure Prevention of Plant and Machinery

Title: Failure Prevention of Plant and Machinery
Author: A.A. Hattangadi
ISBN: 0070483094 / 9780070483095
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 488
Publisher: TMH
Year: 2009
Availability: Out of Stock

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The author writes about the need of an encyclopedia of component and equipment failures and provides it within the span of sixty six chapters? These chapters reveal the distilled quintessence of his long experience in the Indian Railways?

Failure Prevention of plant and Machinery is based on the premise of ?Zero-Failure performance? and the aspiration for the same. The book introduces the general features and investigative methods for determining failures of mechanical and electrical equipment. Also, it dwells on the degradation processes and highlights the failure modes and mechanisms, including the apparently trivial ones.

This approach of the author, who has over 40 years of experience in maintaining a variety of maintenance engineers appreciate and solve problems like the recurrent failure of equipment due to design or maintenance defects.

With this coverage, the book would be useful to reliability, plant, maintenance, electrical and mechanical engineers, and students of electrical and mechanical engineering.

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Foreword
Prefacae

Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : How to Attain Zero Failure Performance
Chapter 3 : General Feature of Failures
Chapter 4 : Investigation of Failures
Chapter 5 : Degradation Processes (Mechanical)
Chapter 6 : Degradation professes (Electrical)
Chapter 7 : Split Pin and Cotter Failures
Chapter 8 : Threaded Fastener Failures
Chapter 9 : Shaft or Axie Failures
Chapter 10 : Ball and Roller Bearing Failures
Chapter 11 :. Sleeve Bearing Failures
Chapter 12 : Failures of White Metal Bearings of Electric Locomotives
Chapter 13 : Flat Belt Failures
Chapter 14 : Vee-belt Failures
Chapter 15 : Pulley Failures
Chapter 16 : Gear Failures
Chapter 17 : Steel Wire Rope Failures
Chapter 18 : Spring Failures
Chapter 19 : Gasket Failures
Chapter 20 : O-ring and U-ring Failures
Chapter 21 : Rubber Hose Pipe Failures
Chapter 22 : Pipe and Tube Failures
Chapter 23 : Compressed Air Valve Failures
Chapter 24 : Failures of Compressed Air Operated Equipment
Chapter 25 : Fluid Filter Failures
Chapter 26 : Compressed Air Motor Failures
Chapter 27 : Air Compressor Failures
Chapter 28 : Vacuum Brake Failures on DC EMUS
Chapter 29 : Fan and Blower Failures
Chapter 30 :. Thermal Cracks on Motor Coach Tyres
Chapter 31 : Structural Member Failures
Chapter 32 : Crimped Socket Failures
Chapter 33 : Wire and cable Failures
Chapter 34 : Insulated Wire Failures
Chapter 35 : Auxiliary Motor Cable Failures
Chapter 36 : Multicore Coupler Failures
Chapter 37 : Knife Switch Failures
Chapter 38 : Parallel Clamp Failures
Chapter 39 : Terminal Board Failures
Chapter 40 : Capacitor Failures
Chapter 41 : Resistor Failures
Chapter 42 : Potentiometer Failures
Chapter 43 : Contact Failures
Chapter 44 : Relays Failures
Chapter 45 : Failures of Fuses and Miniature Circuit Breakers
Chapter 46 : Bus-bar Failures
Chapter 47 : Failures of Lead Acid Batteries
Chapter 48 : Failures of Incandescent Lamps
Chapter 49 : Insulator Failures
Chapter 50 : Solenoid Failures
Chapter 51 : Failures of Carbon Brushes and Commutators
Chapter 52 : Commutator Connection Failures
Chapter 53 : Commutator Failures
Chapter 54 :. Failures of Rotor of Armature Coils in dc Machines
Chapter 55 : Failures of Stator Coils in Rotating Machines
Chapter 56 : Starting Resistor Failures
Chapter 57 : Tapchanger Connection Failures
Chapter 58 : Electrical Machine Failures due to Ventilation Problems
Chapter 59 : Power Transformer Explosions
Chapter 60 : Failures of OHE Regulating Equipment
Chapter 61 : Minimum Oil Circuit-breaker Failures
Chapter 62 : Line Breaker Failures
Chapter 63 : Squirrel Cage Failures in Asynchronous Motors
Chapter 64 : Failures of Mush Wound Stator Windings
Chapter 65 : Pantograph OHE Entanglements
Chapter 66 : Failures and Accidents in Chemical Plant

Index