Every rigid stainless steel pipe joint has a fatigue limit, and vibration will find it. In a chemical process line carrying 160°C steam at 14 bar, a hard-mounted 316L threaded co...
View moreEvery rigid stainless steel pipe joint has a fatigue limit, and vibration will find it. In a chemical process line carrying 160°C steam at 14 bar, a hard-mounted 316L threaded co...
View moreA pharmaceutical plant in Jiangsu lost eight hours of production when a 1/4-inch 304 stainless steel tube fitting started weeping on a nitrogen header during a 180-bar hydrostati...
View moreA coastal chemical plant in Eastern China tracked twelve 304 threaded unions failing within a single service year, all from pitting at the thread roots where chloride-laden proce...
View moreA water-treatment plant in Jiangsu lost six weeks of uptime when its stainless steel pipe fittings pitted at the threaded joints after exposure to 150 ppm chloride process water....
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