Failure investigation of secondary super-heater tubes in a power boiler

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 433-448

  Abou elazm, A Saad ^a   El Mahallawi, I ^a   Abdel karim, R ^a   Rashad, R ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Boiler; Failure; Sensitization; Stress corrosion cracking; Super heater tubes

Indexed keywords

BOILERS; CORROSION; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLUID MECHANICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RESIDUAL STRESSES; SAFETY FACTOR; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

BOILER; FAILURE; SENSITIZATION; SUPER-HEATER TUBES;

STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

EID: 53849113629     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2008.06.024     Document Type: Article

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