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Figure 2: Reprinted from Engineering Failure Analysis, Vol. 10, No. 2, Mirshams, R.A. and Sabbaghian, M. ‘Failure Analysis of an Elbow Tube Fitting’, pp. 215–221. © 2003 Elsevier;
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