Spiral Cracking

Spiral cracking is a pipe failure mode. As the name suggests it presents as a crack that spirals around the circumference of a pipe.

A spiral crack often starts as a circumferential crack and then continues as a spiral around the pipe.

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Causes

  • Pressure surges
  • combination of bending forces and internal pressure

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