Abstract
This article is dealing with such a group of traffic accidents in which a failure at vehicle could have been or actually was caused by some defect of a car part caused by corrosion. Up-to-date situation in terms of failures as causes of traffic accidents both in the Czech republic and abroad is described here and furthermore, the issue related to their assessment. In this contribution, there are described two possible situations which a traffic accident analyst can be confronted with. Firstly, it is corrosion as a failure that was the reason for an accident or secondly, it can be dealt with corrosion as an after-demage that makes assessing a possible failure unable. For both given areas, the examples of traffic accidents, that really happened, are given here – an experiment has been carried out in case of a brake system failure in which the cause was corrosion and this experiment should lead to explanation if there is a relation between the width of a pipe side and its outer diameter covered by corrosion that means if it was possible to foretell a safe width of a pipe side through assessing the corrosion covers on the surface of a pipe.
© 2015 M. Řehák, I. Drahotský, published by Association of Czech and Slovak Corrosion Engineers
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