The banging of pipes often heard when a faucet is turned off or on is called “water hammer” and is due to the sudden arrest or reversal of direction of the water flow. Water hammer is a phenomenon ...

Engineers found a “crack-like flaw” in the ancient Con Ed steam pipe that erupted in a geyser of mud and devastation in Midtown last July – and other pipes in the utility’s massive steam system may ...

Deep inside industrial pipes pressure builds and collapses without warning this is steam hammer a violent surge that forms when hot vapor meets cold water releasing enough force to tear steel apart in ...