Failure Mechanism

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Failure Mechanism

Physical, chemical or other process that leads to a failure. NOTE See also B.2.2.

Source: API STD 689, Collection and Exchange of Reliability and Maintenance Data for Equipment, First Edition, July 2007. GlobalStandards

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