F-Files: Mechanisms of Failure
The Shop-Coated Pipeline That Cracked

From JPCL, September 2011

By Valerie D. Sherbondy, Senior Chemist, KTA-Tator, Inc., and Richard A. Burgess, Series Editor, KTA-Tator, Inc.


by Valerie D. Sherbondy, Senior Chemist, KTA-Tator, Inc., and Richard A. Burgess, Series Editor, KTA-Tator, Inc.

In this F-Files, the author investigates what went wrong when a fusion-bonded epoxy (FBE) system failed and unexpected defects were found during a field inspection....
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Tagged categories: Blistering; Coating failure; Coating Materials; Cracking; Fusion bonded epoxy; Pipeline; Pipelines; Shop-applied coatings

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