 Failures or forced shutdowns in power plants are often due to boilers, particularly failure of boiler tubes. Failure Investigation of Boiler Tubes: A Comprehensive Approach, by industry experts Paresh Haribhakti, P.B. Joshi, and Rajendra Kumar, addresses failure investigation of boiler tubes from basic fundamentals to practical applications. Topics covered include properties and selection of materials for boiler tubes, damage mechanisms responsible for failure of boiler tubes, and characterization techniques employed for investigating failures of boiler tubes in thermal power plants and the utility boilers of industrial/commercial/institutional boilers.From left, a schematic of a needle touching a graphene sheet, a micrograph showing topographic folding, and a schematic of concurrent imaging and manipulationLaurence Casey applying water to an aluminum composite panelA sapphire ball moving across the sample modifies the copper permanentlyFrom left, nanopillar fabricated for compression test and electron microscope image of dislocation avalancheNSLS-II scientist stands next to the Hard X-ray Nanoprobe beamline, where her research team developed a novel x-ray imaging techniqueThree-dimensional image of hydrogen-induced crack in nickel alloySchematic of in vitro material analysis technologySchematic of analytical method and structure determinedAn additive-manufactured part relative to the tip of a match