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Two principal groups of failure mechanisms appear in power plant components. On one hand, each component is usually known to suffer at least potentially from certain failure mechanisms that are expected and largely accounted for in design, manufacturing and assembly of the plant. Such mechanisms include for example creep, fatigue and corrosion under the foreseen service conditions. Even these mechanisms...