Sentence examples for caused pipes from inspiring English sources

On the Tuesday before the storm, a failure in the high school's heating system caused pipes to burst, shutting down the heat and the electricity, and causing water damage.

In homes with no heat or electricity, freezing temperatures could cause pipes to burst, causing more damage to plumbing systems.

Not only are they frustrating to remove, they are also extremely corrosive and can cause pipes to rot.

This is because corrosion can cause severe failures by thinning the wall thickness and eventually cause pipes or equipment to burst.

Shifts underground could cause pipes carrying natural gas, water and sewage to break and burst, leaving many of us without power or flushing toilets.

Insulating exposed water pipes will help protect them from freezing, which can cause pipes to burst, since water expands when it freezes, putting tremendous pressure on pipes.

Both cavitation erosion and liquid impingement erosion are phenomena that can cause pipe wall thinning in power plants.

Erosion wear in piping is an unavoidable degradation process in the oil and gas industry that causes pipe wall thinning and leads to economic losses and potentially produce personal injuries.

One of the critical situations arises when two or more defects are spaced close enough to act as a single lengthier defect with respect to the axial direction, causing pipe ruptures rather than leaks, and impacting on the pressure containing capacity of a pipe.

Dead-ends in pipes cause many pipe failures.

They were meant to promote the ability of the faucet filter system to sift out sediment caused by pipes in old buildings, she said, not the city's water system.