Abstract: The paper presents a critical review of the state-of-the-art in probabilistic assessment of pressure vessel and piping reliability. First the differences in assessing the reliability directly from ...

Abstract: In this paper we consider the dynamics of a pipe conveying fluid, when the flow velocity is harmonically perturbed about a mean value. Two methods of analysis are presented; Bolotin’s method, ...

Abstract: An integral equation approach is presented for the generation of seismic power spectral density functions from specified response spectra. First, the problem of generating the response spectrum ...