piping failure
1Dam failure — The reservoir emptying through the failed Teton Dam A dam is a barrier across flowing water that obstructs, directs or slows down the flow, often creating a reservoir, lake or impoundments. Most dams have a section called a spillway or weir over… …
2Happy Valley Reservoir — Infobox lake lake name = Happy Valley Reservoir image lake = Happy Valley Reservoir 20070223.jpg caption lake = View of Happy Valley Reservoir in early 2007 image bathymetry = caption bathymetry = location = South Australia coords =… …
4Railway air brake — Piping diagram from 1920 of a Westinghouse E T Air Brake system on a locomotive …
5building construction — Techniques and industry involved in the assembly and erection of structures. Early humans built primarily for shelter, using simple methods. Building materials came from the land, and fabrication was dictated by the limits of the materials and… …
6Taum Sauk pumped storage plant — The remains of the Taum Sauk pumped storage plant are located in the St. Francois mountain region of the Missouri Ozarks approximately 90 miles (145 km) south of St. Louis near Lesterville, Missouri. The pumped storage hydroelectric plant,… …
7Corrosion loop — Corrosion loop(s) are systemised analysis loops used during Risk based inspection analysis. Both terms “RBI Corrosion loops” or “RBI corrosion circuits” are generic terms used to indicate the systemisation of piping systems into usable and… …
8Fouling — This article is about fouling in engineering. For uses of the term foul outside technology, see Foul (disambiguation). Not to be confused with fowling. Heat exchanger in a steam power plant, fouled by macro fouling …
9Spud gun — For the child s toy which fires small pieces of potato, see spud gun (toy). A pneumatic potato cannon A potato cannon (also known as a spud gun or spudzooka ) is a pipe based cannon which uses air pressure (pneumatic), Propellant, or… …
10Spud gun (cannon) — This article is about pipe based cannons and similar which use air pressure, or combustion of a gaseous fuel, or both, to launch large projectiles at low speed. They are in two types: * To fire whole potatoes. These launchers are built and fired… …
