Failure analysis of a cracked concrete pipe in a 50Â MW thermosolar power plant

The need to understand the reason for the pathologies, in order to prevent their reappearance, justifies a detailed analysis of the adopted design, as well as its execution. The research is completed with novel techniques for in-situ tests, which enable us to obtain rigorous data to be used in computer models with the aim of reproducing, in a controlled way, the execution conditions in order to establish the causes of the failure.