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Lesson 09·Diagnosis

Failure modes and how to read them

Spalling, delamination, galling, egg-shell collapse. Reading failure surfaces to find root causes rather than chasing symptoms.

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Spalling. Delamination. Galling. Plastic flow. Edge chipping. Compound-layer cracking. All different failures, all look similar to a casual eye. The part tells you what happened if you know how to read it.