Antshep

I am doing this to complete my homework assignment from Information Fluency. AARWON (talk) 00:17, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Suggested Reading

Engineering disasters : lessons to be learned by Don Lawson

If you are an engineer or you are just curious about what can happen when engineering does work out the way it was planned you should read this book. The specific chapter i read was titled the Uskmouth Turbine Failure. One thing i really enjoyed about reading this chapter was I learned about what mistakes were made as well as what could have been done to prevent them. Some of the topics covered in this chapter are the Failure itself, circumstances surrounding the failure, What should of happened, the investigation and a lessoned learned section as well.The Uskmouth Turbine Failure happened on January 18 1956 and Two people died due to the failure along with nine injured. The explosion of the turbine was caused by the over revving of the turbine because of the load that is suppose to be applied to the turbine had been removed causing the speed of the turbine to increase rapidly until failure. The book says that a low pressure rotor was thrown out of the building several hundred yards away. There was a governing/tripping mechanism that should have kicked on and limited the revolutions to seven percent of normal operating speed. I really enjoyed the lesson learned section there was a lot of good information that is very useful to think about when dealing with things of this nature. (Antshep (talk) 07:26, 3 February 2012 (UTC))

References

Lawson, D. (2005). Engineering disasters: lessons to be learned. New York: ASME Press.

ISBN 0791802302 9780791802304

Hello

what is going on man. Tbrown224 (talk) 18:29, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Possible article on Wikipedia

Did this turbine failure occur at the Uskmouth A power station in Wales? If so, you may be able to work on this article: Uskmouth power stations. Also, to make the ISBN automatic link work, get rid of the : after ISBN. Michelev (talk) 21:27, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

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