Failure Analysis Case Studies II

Overload Failures.

Bursting of a silo (R. Kieselbach). Shear failure of a road-vehicle steering shaft (J .H. Cleland, D.R.H. Jones). Breakup of the firewall between t he B and C modules of the Piper Alpha platform - I. Analysis by hand ca lculation (A.C. Palmer). Failure of a flexible pipe with a co ncrete liner (M. Talesnick, R. Baker). Torsional failure of a wire rope mooring line during installation in deep water (C.R. Chaplin) .

Creep Failures. Type III creep cracking at main steam line welds (K.G. Sedman et al.).

Creep failure of a spray drier
(P. Carter).
Catastrophic failure of a polypropy lene tank Part I: primary investigation (P.R. Lewis, G.W Weidmann). Catastrophic failure of a polypropylene tank Part II: comparison of the DVS 2205 code of practice and the design of the failed tank (G.W. Weidmann, P.R. Lewis).

Brittle Fracture.

Investigation of the MV Kurdistan casua