Failures often occur on products, facilities, infrastructures in various industrial sectors, not only resulting in huge economic loss but also fatalities in some cases. It’s critical and imperative to determine the failure root cause(s), failure mechanism(s) and provide counter measures to prevent similar failure(s) recurrence in future. Effective failure analysis can not only enhance reliability and safety of products and infrastructures, but also improve the product quality and reduce operational cost and down time of facilities so that improve productivity.

This training course is designed to provide an overview and solid foundation in understanding and performing industrial failure analysis by sharing relevant knowledge (not only just from textbooks but also from working practice) and discussing actual case studies (including cases submitted by delegates).

• To understand general failure analysis procedures, methodologies and techniques.
• To understand the significance of properties of materials, their behavior and influences by microstructural, process and environment.
• To learn analytical techniques used for failure analysis to identify root cause(s).
• Characteristics, mechanisms of common failures and their failure causes.

Part 1, Overview of industrial failure analysis
Introduction
General procedures of industrial failure analysis
Effective failure analysis
Report preparation and assessment on failure analysis investigation
How to select failure analysis service providers

Part 2, Non-destructive examination
Visual examination
Ultrasonic testing
Dye/liquid penetration
Magnetic particle examination
Eddy Current testing
X-ray examination

Part 3, Advanced analytical instruments and applications
Microscopy – microscopic and metallurgical examination
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)/Energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDX)
Chemical element analysis
X-ray diffraction (XRD)
Fourier transform infrared spectrometry (FTIR)
Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)

Part 4, Failures - characteristics, mechanisms and prevention
Mechanical failures
Fractures - Brittle and ductile fractures
Material embrittlements - hydrogen, liquid metals, tempering
Fatigue – LCF, HCF, corrosion fatigue
Fractography - macro and micro-examination on fracture surfaces
Creep
Wear: abrasive, fretting, contact fatigue, ferrography
Chemical failures
General corrosion, pitting corrosion, intergranular corrosion, crevice corrosion, galvanic corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, selective leaching, erosion corrosion, hydrogen attack
Electrical failures
Current leakage
Short circuit
Open circuit
Arcing
P-N junction breakdown

Part 5, Case Studies of failure analysis
A number of actual failure cases from different industrial sectors including aerospace, marine, transportation, construction, electronics, oil refinery will be analysed and discussed.

Dr George YU, is registered Chartered Engineer (UK) and API 510 Pressure Vessel Inspector (USA), Executive Committee Member of The Institute of Materials (East Asia) and Technical assessor/expert by Singapore Accreditation Council. He has more than 35 years of relevant industrial work and research experience. As lead author, he published a number of technical papers in referred international journals and conferences. As Principal Investigator, he successfully completed more than 1000 projects on failure analysis, accident investigation, product development, facility assessment/inspection and material evaluation, including damages of amusement rides (roller coaster vehicle & track), major disruptions in mass rapid transport system (power supply, rails), accidents of cranes, aerospace engine damages, automotive steering system failure, lift rope breakage, landing gear system failure, turbine & hovercraft accidents, failures in gas and steam turbines, notebook computer burning, failures in jack-up rigs, extra-hydrogen release in huge batteries of Submarine (>300 Kg), transformer fire, failures of PCB, PCBA, LCD, passive components and IC, heat exchanger burst, submarine power cable damages, microprocessor malfunction, transformer firing, electrical busduct explosion, premature failure of tungsten carbide tools, explosion of power distribution system, large ship-lifting system cracking, failures in building and structures etc. His investigation and recommendations on two major roller coaster incidents (the operation down for >1 year) resulted in significant improvements on safety & reliability of the system. As expert witness, Dr YU attended a series of court hearings and legal litigations including Committee of Inquiry (COI) on two major MRT disruptions in 2011 and fatal crane incident at National Arts Gallery. Dr YU had correctly determined the root cause of the worst massive MRT disruption on 7 July, 2015 and his views had been published on Top of Views

in The Straits Times (A4, 30 July 2015).

Click here to download Dr YU's CV.

This course is ideal for professionals in engineering, maintenance, QA, safety and R&D from various industries such as manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, marine, construction, oil refinery, chemical, and electronics. This training course can also help management staff, lawyers and insurance professionals involved in litigations from industrial failures/accidents for better understanding the natures, mechanisms and responsibilities of the failures/accidents.

Two days (9:00 am -5:30 pm)

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UTC’s Experts and guest lecturers with extensive experience from industries conduct lectures to public to share their knowledge and industrial experience during UTC's training courses.

UTC offers both regular public training courses and in-house customized training.

Following customized courses had been successfully conducted:

"Failure Investigation and Analysis (FIA)" for Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF). The course was awarded 18 professional development units (PDU) by Professional Engineers Board, Singapore.

"Vehicle Fire Investigation" for Land Transport Authority (LTA). The course was awarded 14 professional development units (PDU) by Professional Engineers Board, Singapore.

"Fire Investigation" training course for a loss adjuster and consultation company. This training course was awarded 14 professional development units (PDU) by Professional Engineers Board, Singapore.

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S$100 training credit is applicable to members of IES and SISO

Course material, refreshments, complimentary lunch arrangement and certificate will be provided.
10% discount is applicable for company with ≥3 pax, T & C.

Companies can enjoy 400% tax deductions and/or 40% cash payout of course fee under PIC.

Terms and Conditions

• Limited subsidy seats are available, is subject to a first-come-first-serve basis.
• Companies may replace participants who have signed up for the course, given one week notice before course commencement.
• UTC reserves the right to change or cancel any course, in light of unforeseen circumstances. Full refund is applicable in case of cancelation.
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Nearby MRT stations: Buona Vista (east west line, circle line), One north (circle line)

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