Fuel line failure from stress corrosion cracking

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 946-962

  Lewis, Peter R ^a   Hainsworth, Sarah ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Car accident; Fuel line; Stress corrosion cracking

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; AUTOMOTIVE FUELS; BRITTLE FRACTURE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

CAR ACCIDENT; FUEL LINE FAILURE; HEAD-ON CAR ACCIDENT;

FAILURE (MECHANICAL);

ACCIDENTS; AUTOMOTIVE FUELS; BRITTLE FRACTURE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

EID: 33645984530     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2005.04.010     Document Type: Article

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2. Discussed at .
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6. Major fires in cars have been caused by abrasive wear of nylon 12 fuel lines, as discussed in relation to the Murphy Infants-v-Fiat spa case from Eire, in Block 2 of T839 Forensic Engineering, Open University Press, 2000. The case is also discussed in Lewis, Reynolds and Gagg, CRC Press, 2004, page 194 ff.
7. See Lewis PR, Reynolds K and Gagg C. Forensic materials engineering. CRC Press; 2004. p. 297, for a discussion of cut or fracture problems in a failed catheter.
8. ICI industrial fibres manual, Chemical properties of terylene and ICI nylon; 1981 [Fig. 1].
9. Lewis P.R., Reynolds K., and Gagg C. Forensic materials engineering (2004), CRC Press p. 228
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12. Lewis P.R., Reynolds K., and Gagg C. Forensic materials engineering (2004), CRC Press p. 184