Corrosion Fatigue Cracking and Thermal Fatigue Cracking Detected in Boiler Tubes Using Hawkeye FTF # 17 The Problem: A power plant in New Jersey experienced a failure in a slag screen tube in one of their boilers. Following the rupture, the “S” shaped tube was removed and analyzed. The results of the metallurgical analysis identified corrosion fatigue cracking and thermal fatigue cracking as the reasons for the rupture. The co

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