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Failure analysis of an electric resistance welded carbon steel boiler tube demonstrated that the mechanism of failure was long-term overheat due to heavy internal scaling, followed by short-term overheat due to localized heating during boiler shutdown.
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Perdomo, J.J., Spry, T.D. An overheat boiler tube failure. J Fail. Anal. and Preven. 5, 25–28 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1361/15477020522997
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