BMC proudly specializes in finding the appropriate and balanced level of technical analysis for your situation. Some cases require the extra mile, but knowing when to call off the science project is equally important to providing your company or working group. In this instance, a dated spring material was used in an application where the stress scenario was highly dynamic, transient, and largely unknown. Additionally, an embrittlement mechanism complicated the failure.
It was assumed that discovering a complete envelope of component dynamics, it was important to focus on the embrittlement mechanism. The component functioned properly, then at some succinct point, did not. After various peer reviews of the metallurgical work performed, no clear path forward existed to discover the embrittlement mechanism. BMC’s expertise is to look at a situation like this, recognize the intrigue of the scientific problem but then offer that changing the material with unknown performance, did not increase risk, rather, offered an escape route. Given that any new component could be embrittled and fail on the first usage cycle, any other reasonably similar material offered a safer situation without additional design work or testing.
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