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The interdisciplinary nature of failure analysis

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In many cases, proper investigation of a failure involves several disciplines, and the failure analyst must recognize and use all relevant expertise to identify all the causes for a failure. This is true irrespective of the size of the damages caused by a failure, which governs the amount of time and effort that is usually put into investigating it. The analyst must keep in mind the interdisciplinary nature of failure analysis, no matter the size of the project.

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    Roland Huet (Exponent Failure Analysis Associates)

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This article was previously published inProceedings of Failure Prevention through Education: Getting to the Root Cause. The conference was presented 23–25 May 2000, in Cleveland, Ohio, by ASM International.

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Huet, R. The interdisciplinary nature of failure analysis. Practical Failure Analysis 2, 17–19 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02719183

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