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by jacquesm 1280 days ago
It's a much harder problem than that. Even if you did not find the crack just before taking the structure into use a crack could develop at any point in time after that and you're definitely not going to be emptying this tank on a regular basis for inspection.

So you either detect it before commissioning or it will eventually fail if there is a flaw.