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This article provides an overview of how fractographs in this Atlas are organized and presented. It contains a table that lists the distribution content of illustrations for various materials discussed in the Atlas. The causes of fractures for various ferrous and nonferrous alloys and engineered materials are also illustrated.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of pearlitic malleable and ferritic malleable white irons, and in identifying and interpreting the morphology of fracture surfaces. The fractographs illustrate the fracture sequence, localized plastic deformation, and microcrack initiation and propagation of these irons.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of sulfur concrete and asphalt and in identifying and interpreting the morphology of fracture surfaces. The fractographs illustrate the crystal morphology, noninterconnecting voids, and microvoids of these surfaces.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of precipitation-hardening stainless steels and in identifying and interpreting the morphology of fracture surfaces. The fractographs illustrate the cup-and-cone tension-overload fracture, low-cycle and high-cycle fatigue fracture, fracture surface, brittle intergranular fracture, hydrogen embrittlement, and intergranular stress-corrosion cracking of stainless steel components of these steels. The components include high-pressure compressor parts, springs, deflector yokes of aircraft main landing gears, and aircraft engine mount beams.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of pure irons and in identifying and interpreting the morphology of fracture surfaces. The fractographs illustrate the grain-boundary cavitation; slip lines; intergranular fracture; cleavage fracture; notch-impact fracture; oxide inclusions and blowholes; ductile rupture; impact fracture and tensile-test fracture surfaces; fatigue striations; and crack initiation and propagation of pure irons.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that covers nickel-base superalloys. The fractographs display the following: hydrogen-embrittlement fracture; segment of a fractured second-stage gas-turbine wheel; gas-producer turbine rotor cast; dendritic stress-rupture fracture surface; fatigue and creep fractures; simultaneous metallographic-fractographic evaluation; and effect of thermal cycling on fatigue fracture.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of a type of resin-matrix composites, carbon-epoxy composites. The fractographs illustrate the fracture modes found in composite prepregs, composite panels, solid rocket motor nozzles, and tension, flexural, compressive, and shear loadings.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of cast aluminum alloys and in identifying and interpreting the morphology of fracture surfaces. The fractographs illustrate the brittle fracture, microvoid coalescence, fatigue striations, and microstructure of these alloys. The components considered include fractured sand-cast carrier trays, broken extension-housing yokes, helicopter tail-rotor drive assemblies, fractured bell-crank fittings, chain-hoist hooks, and automotive connecting rods.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of gray irons and in identifying and interpreting the morphology of fracture surfaces. The fractographs illustrate the fatigue fracture, solidification structure, and crack propagation of gray irons.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of nickel alloys and in identifying and interpreting the morphology of fracture surfaces. The fractographs illustrate the fatigue crack, transgranular cleavage, intergranular fracture, grain boundaries, notch and fatigue precrack, dimpled rupture, and fatigue striations of these alloys.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of miscellaneous metals and alloys and in identifying and interpreting the morphology of fracture surfaces. The metals and alloys covered include tungsten, iridium, magnesium-base, iron-base, molybdenum-base, and tantalum-base materials. The fractographs illustrate fatigue striations, slow-bending fracture, quasi-cleavage fracture, corrosion-fatigue fracture, fatigue crack, intergranular cleavage, microvoid coalescence, tension-overload fracture, crack propagation, impact fracture, and high-cycle fatigue failure.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of polymers, including polycarbonate, polyethylene, and polyimide, and in identifying and interpreting the morphology of fracture surfaces. The fractographs illustrate the quasi-brittle fatigue crack propagation, brittle and ductile fracture, crack-growth mechanisms, tearing, fibrillation, and fatigue striations of these surfaces.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of cobalt alloys (cast Vitallium and cast ASTM F75 alloys) and in identifying and interpreting the morphology of fracture surfaces. The fractographs illustrate the fatigue fracture, microcrack, and stair-step fracture surface of these alloys.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of low-carbon steels and in identifying and interpreting the morphology of fracture surfaces. The fractographs illustrate the following: the intergranular fracture, bending impact fracture, brittle fracture, tensile-test fracture, transgranular fracture, cleavage fracture, delayed fracture, corrosion fatigue, inclusion morphology, fatigue crack propagation, and in-service fatigue fracture of various automotive components. These components include tie rod adjusting sleeves, automotive bolts, hydraulic jack shafts, crank handle collars, boiler tubes, drive shafts, bicycle pedal axles, lift-truck hydraulic-piston rods, and steel springs.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of electronic materials, including L-shaped electronic flat pack, transistor base lead, ohmic contact window, and brush/slip ring assembly. The fractographs illustrate the atomic oxygen environment exposure effect, solar cell interconnect, integrated circuit defects, and fatigue failure of these materials.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of tool steels and in identifying and interpreting the morphology of fracture surfaces. The fractographs illustrate the low-cycle and high-cycle fatigue fractures, tension-overload fractures, impact fractures, microstructure, quench cracking, brittle-in-service failure, hydrogen embrittlement, stress-corrosion cracking, and grain-boundary cracking of tool steel components. These components include diesel engine injector plungers, rivet-heading tools, circular saw blades, and open-header dies.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of metal-matrix composites, including tungsten fiber-reinforced aluminum, tungsten fiber-reinforced carbon steel, and tungsten fiber-reinforced silver. The fractographs illustrate the ductile fracture, interlaminar failure, transgranular cleavage and fracture, tension-overload fracture, longitudinal and transverse cracking, fiber splitting, stress rupture, and low-cycle fatigue of these composites.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of one specific type of cemented carbide, tungsten carbide. It also assists in identifying and interpreting the morphology of fracture surfaces. The fractographs illustrate the brittle fracture, transgranular fracture, intergranular fracture, and crack propagation of the tungsten carbide.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of copper alloys and in identifying and interpreting the morphology of fracture surfaces. The fractographs illustrate the following: fatigue fracture, intergranular fracture, transgranular fracture, microvoid coalescence, corrosion fatigue, fatigue striations, tensile-overload fracture, stress-corrosion cracking, and pitting corrosion of these alloys.

This article is an atlas of fractographs that helps in understanding the causes and mechanisms of fracture of two types of ceramics, namely, boron- and carbon-doped silicon carbide.