Abstract: This paper considers the failure of an acetylene gas cylinder which occurred under extreme loading conditions resulting in severe fragmentation of the cylinder. The characteristics of the failure ...

Abstract: Risk-based inspection guidelines have been created by several technical societies, most notably the ASME and API. This study intends to show how one of these techniques, American Petroleum ...

Abstract: This paper evaluates the downstream hydrologic and economic impacts of development strategies that promote greater on-site storage of storm water. This paper applies a methodology to a specific case study that emphasizes ...

Abstract: The recent development of very high current pulsed power supplies provides an opportunity for order of magnitude improvements in electromagnetic launcher performance. Consideration of design ...

Abstract: Welding residual stresses have important consequences on the performance of engineering components. High residual stresses may lead to loss of performance in corrosion, fatigue, and fracture but ...

Abstract: This paper explores the use of neutron and synchrotron diffractions for the evaluation of residual stresses in welded components. It has been shown that it is possible to achieve very good ...

Abstract: An evaluation was carried out to investigate the feasibility of utilizing a molten salt as the heat transfer fluid (HTF) and for thermal storage in a parabolic trough solar field to improve ...

Abstract: In this research, the neutron diffraction technique was used to investigate the residual stress distributions in constrained carbon steel welds. Two full penetration welds were studied using (a) ...