Electric Arc Holes in Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing
Corrugated stainless steel tubing (CSST) has become a common product installed in new and retrofitted older homes. The ease of installation due to its flexibility and the need for fewer joints significantly lowers labor costs. Despite the advantages of lower cost and ease of installation, however, t...
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| description | Corrugated stainless steel tubing (CSST) has become a common product installed in new and retrofitted older homes. The ease of installation due to its flexibility and the need for fewer joints significantly lowers labor costs. Despite the advantages of lower cost and ease of installation, however, the thin wall of CSST presents an increased risk of perforation by both mechanical puncturing and electrical arcing from either household current or lightning strikes. In the course of forensic investigations of household fires, perforated tubing is occasionally identified as a potential cause. The metallurgical features of the perforated area are capable of distinguishing the cause of the hole as being from either lightning current or household current. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1110722022-09-23T13:13:42Z Electric Arc Holes in Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing Taylor, Richard Larson, Harold R Eagar, Thomas W MIT Materials Research Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering Taylor, Richard Larson, Harold R Eagar, Thomas W Corrugated stainless steel tubing (CSST) has become a common product installed in new and retrofitted older homes. The ease of installation due to its flexibility and the need for fewer joints significantly lowers labor costs. Despite the advantages of lower cost and ease of installation, however, the thin wall of CSST presents an increased risk of perforation by both mechanical puncturing and electrical arcing from either household current or lightning strikes. In the course of forensic investigations of household fires, perforated tubing is occasionally identified as a potential cause. The metallurgical features of the perforated area are capable of distinguishing the cause of the hole as being from either lightning current or household current. 2017-08-30T19:21:35Z 2018-04-01T05:00:06Z 2017-06 2017-01 2017-08-20T03:50:11Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0015-2684 1572-8099 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111072 Taylor, Richard H. et al. “Electric Arc Holes in Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing.” Fire Technology 53, 5 (June 2017): 1919–1932 © 2017 Springer Science+Business Media New York https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6804-2798 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-0685 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4978-7583 en http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10694-017-0663-1 Fire Technology Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Springer Science+Business Media New York application/pdf Springer-Verlag Springer US |
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| title | Electric Arc Holes in Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing |
| title_full | Electric Arc Holes in Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing |
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| title_short | Electric Arc Holes in Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing |
| title_sort | electric arc holes in corrugated stainless steel tubing |
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