JFAP News
2025 Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention Editor’s Choice Articles Announced
Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention Editor-in-Chief Elvin Beach recently announced this year’s Editor’s Choice articles, showcasing six of the high-quality articles that were published in the journal in 2025. They are free to read and can be shared with your colleagues.
- “Influence of Load Misalignment on T-bolts Failure in Wind Turbine Blades” by Guillermo Muñoz-Hernandez, Giovanni Vidal-Flores, Filiberto Ramon-Cipriano, Jose Guadalupe Rico-Espino, and Felipe Garcia-Ramirez
- “Failure Analysis of a Mountain Bicycle Crank Arm” by Brett A. Miller, Justin Barnes, Phillip D. Swartzentruber, Michael Bayne, and Anthony Petters
- “Experimental Determination of Temperatures Achieved by Hot Particles Produced from Electrical Arcing” by Kevin Lewis, Jonathan Carlos Contreras, Ethan Ensminger, Jonathan Hodges, Tommy Halim, Benjamin Baumann, and Jeffery Marsh
- “Failure Analysis of Austenitic Stainless Steel Weldments: The Role of Copper Contamination and Crack Propagation Mechanisms” by Shiva Bejugama, Sidhareddy Manigandan, Vemoori Raju, and Obulapathi Eggidi
- “Optimizations and Case Studies: Decapsulation of Hardened Epoxy SiC MOSFETs and Diodes via JIACO Microwave-Induced Plasma Etching” by Connor J. Sorrells, Kyle E. Nielsen, Bret A. Walters, Jiaqi Tang, and Mark W. McKinnon
- “Failure Investigation of Copper-To-Copper Bonding in Advanced 3D Packaging: From Sample Preparation to Structural Characterization” by Pawel Nowakowski, Richard Wei-Chih Li, Mary Ray, and Paul Fischione
We hope you enjoy reading these outstanding articles, and congratulations to the authors of the selected papers for this well-deserved recognition!
Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention 2024 Best Paper Award Winner Announced
The Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention (JFAP) is pleased to announce that the JFAP 2024 Best Paper winner is “Copper Contamination Cracking in a Pipeline Repair Weld” by Connor Slone, Cory Cline, Dan Kaplowitz, Gabriel Ganot, and Brad James, Exponent, Inc.; Ehsan Mostaed, Stress Engineering Services; and Dave Aguiar, Pacific Gas & Electric. The Best Paper was selected by the Editorial Board of the journal from all papers published in Volume 24. The award will be recognized at IMAT 2025 in Detroit, Michigan.
You can read the JFAP 2024 Best Paper here. We extend our congratulations to the authors of this winning paper!
