You've got two or three hundred tubes to a unit here, by my estimate, and if you have a tube failure in flight-well, the only word that fits what would happen then is blooey!

Major problems included microphonic difficulties and tube failures attributed to vibration and acceleration in gun projectiles.

If these are exceeded then tube failure is likely.

Engineers reduced ENIAC's tube failures to the more acceptable rate of one tube every two days.

Despite this, carbon is still regularly blamed for tube failures without proper investigation.

This was demonstrated by the Fury tragedy, though the reason for the tube failure in that case was concluded to be overheating due to lack of steam flow rather than scaling.

The pressure in the tube will bulge the rim strip a small amount towards the centre of the wheel, but this will not lead to a tube failure.

Ryeland took it in, and realized that Machine Major Chatterji was concerned about the tube failure between Paris and the Finland center.

Another trouble source may be corrosion due to deposits which may also cause tube failure.

The large overpressure caused "catastrophic tube failure" (an explosion destroying the gun tube).