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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Types of Defects in Ride Design

There are many different types of failures to take into consideration when designing an amusement park attraction. Although it is impossible to account for eveything, as a mechanical engineer to you must think of as many as possible in order to prevent defects from happening. The following is a list of possible issues engineers must plan for:

Accumulation of Pores
Aligned Porosity
Bend Radius, Wire/Cable
Broken
Bubble
Buckling
Burned/Overheated
Burn Through
Burrs
Clocking
Contamination
Contour
Corrosion/Stains
Cure Failure
Damaged
Delamination
Dimension, Oversize
Dimension, Undersize
Dings/Dents/Indentations
Documentation
Drill Start
Electrical
Expired Service Life
Extra Hole
Fillet Leg Undersize
Flash
Flow
Gap
Gap to Shank
Grain Direction
Hardness
Hardware
Head Treat
Hole, Oversize
Hole, Undersize
Hole, Short Edge Distance
Illegible
Inclusions
Identification
Insert Staking Improper
Installation Improper
Insufficient Throat
Interference
Lack of Penetration
Leaks
Linear Indication
Loctite (epoxy) missing
Loose
Material
Mismatch
Missing
Orientation
Packaging
Part Mislocated
Perpendicularity
Pinch Points
Processing Time Exceeded
Rounded Porosity
Safety Wire
Scratches/Gouges
Standard Process Not Followed
Surface Finish
Surface Porosity
Suspect
Tears
Test Failure
Thread Damage
Thread Protrusion
Threads Worn
Tool/Die Marks
Torque Stripe
Weld Undersized

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