By Ryan Murphy, technical director, Evolution Fasteners (UK) Ltd
There are well documented and investigated cases of failures, which can be attributed to stress corrosion cracking since 1965. Some have led to monetary loses in the hundreds of millions of dollars and nobody can calculate the worth of the 119 lives that have been lost to these failures.(…)
via Famous failures series: Part 1 – stress corrosion cracking | Fastener + Fixing Magazine.