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Failure Mitigation and Extension of Service Life

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The importance of the technologies associated with ensuring structural integrity and life extension is defined by the degree of reliability in many components of industrial plants, power plants, and civil structures. Extending the life of industrial facilities is now a key technology for many countries that are engaged in a process of integration and economic and industrial recovery.

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Otegui, J.L. (2014). Failure Mitigation and Extension of Service Life. In: Failure Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03910-7_9

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