Revisiting Aloha Airline Flight 243: Corrosion Engineer’s Stand Point

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• Creators:
  Hashmi, Nauman
• Corporate Creators:
  School of chemical and materials engineering, National University of Science and technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Air transportation crashes
  • Corrosion
  • Crash causes
  • Fatigue cracking
  • Fuselages
  • Pitting
  • Stress corrosion
  • Aviation
  • Materials
  • Safety and Human Factors
  More +
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Hawaii ; United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  School of chemical and materials engineering, National University of Science and technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
• Abstract:
  From the Latin word of “Corrodere”, the word of corrosion has been derived which means “gnaw into pieces”. Despite the rapid pace of human society since last 3 centuries, the silent attack of corrosion has been a problem. From giant engineering structures till sewer pipe line, the battle between rust and run is on since the industrial revolution. Corrosion has been the main factors of many technological and structural disasters. From catastrophes of bridge collapse, pipe line explosion and aerospace structures, almost all of the industries have born the burst of this silent enemy. In preceding text, a similar catastrophe of fateful aloha airline flight 243 has been discussed in detail.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/39419/dot_39419_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 813.23 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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