There are now a number of books and seminars that explain fracture assessment theoretically or in detail for selected damage cases. In practice, however, the cause of the breakage is seldom immediately clearly recognizable. In addition, relevant areas have often been destroyed by the fracture, which makes a clear assessment [...]

Addressed are managing directors (GF), quality management officers (QM) and those responsible for determining measurement uncertainties, whose aim is to achieve consistently high quality of the analysis results in accordance with current standard specifications. Basic knowledge of spark spectrometry and statistics is not mandatory. These will also be taught on [...]