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Front Cover -- THE MECHANISMS OF METALLURGICAL FAILURE -- THE MECHANISMS OF METALLURGICAL FAILURE -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 -- The fracture of liquids -- 1.1 Theoretical strength of liquids -- 1.1.1 Classical continuum theory -- 1.1.2 Classical bubble nucleation -- 1.1.3 Homogeneous nucleation -- 1.1.3.1 Heterogeneous nucleation -- 1.1.4 Nucleation conditions for shrinkage pores -- 1.1.5 Joint gas and shrinkage conditions -- 1.1.6 Pseudo-heterogeneous nucleation of pores
1.2 Experimental demonstration of hydrostatic tensions in liquids -- 1.3 Nonclassical pore formation mechanisms -- 1.3.1 High energy radiation -- 1.3.2 Preexisting suspension of bubbles -- 1.4 Entrainment processes -- 1.4.1 Entrainment of bifilms -- 1.4.1.1 Visual evidence for bifilms -- 1.4.1.2 Surface turbulence -- 1.4.2 Weber Number We -- 1.4.3 Froude number Fr -- 1.4.4 Reynolds number Re -- 1.4.5 Oxide skins from melt charge materials -- 1.4.6 Pouring -- 1.4.7 The critical fall height -- 1.4.8 The oxide lap from surface flooding -- 1.4.9 Oxide lap as a confluence weld
1.4.10 The oxide flow tube -- 1.4.11 Microjetting -- 1.4.12 Entrainment of bubbles -- 1.4.12.1 Bubble trails -- 1.4.12.2 Bubble damage -- 1.4.13 Other entrainment defects -- 1.4.13.1 Extrinsic inclusions -- 1.4.13.2 Flux and slag inclusions -- 1.4.14 Furling and unfurling -- 1.4.14.1 Inflation by gas -- 1.4.14.2 Expansion by solidification shrinkage (3-D strain) -- 1.4.14.3 Transgranular straightening (flattening) by dendrite growth -- 1.4.14.4 Intergranular straightening by grains -- 1.4.14.5 Straightening (flattening) by intermetallics and second phases
1.4.14.6 Flattening by rigid flat intermetallic or second phase -- 1.4.14.7 Opening by 1-D cooling strain -- 1.4.14.8 Opening under service stress -- 1.4.14.8.1 Rate of unfurling -- 1.4.14.8.2 Variations in unfurling behavior -- 1.4.15 Detrainment -- 1.4.15.1 Detrainment techniques take a variety of forms -- 1.4.16 Deactivation of entrained films -- 1.4.16.1 Loss of gas -- 1.4.16.2 Closing of bifilms by pressure -- 1.4.16.3 Bonding by diffusion reaction -- 1.4.16.4 Bonding by liquid binder -- 1.4.17 Morphological transformations -- 1.4.18 Soluble, transient films
