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Damage of a screw in the seal coupling

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The damage to a screw on the head of a 1.8 liter personal car engine was nucleated as the result of common disadvantageous environmental influences and reversed loads leading to corrosion fatigue.

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  1. NTF—Department of Materials and Metallurgy, University of Ljubljana, Askerceva 12, 1001, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    B. Kosec, L. Kosec & P. Skraba

  2. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Askerceva 6, 1001, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    F. Bizjan

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Kosec, B., Kosec, L., Skraba, P. et al. Damage of a screw in the seal coupling. Practical Failure Analysis 2, 57–60 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02715470

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