Abstract: In order to study the structural integrity of the reactor pressure vessel under pressurized thermal shock, both the cleavage and the ductile thermal shock fracture experiments using initially ...

Abstract: High tensile strength is one of the most important requirements for threaded pipe joints used in oil or gas-producing wells. If an excessively large tensile load is applied to the joints, a ...

Abstract: The settlements of structures resting on saturated sand deposits are examined in shaking table tests. Two series of tests are conducted to examine the effects of the duration of seismic shaking and the group effects of ...

Abstract: An urgent problem for nuclear power plants is to assess the structural integrity of the reactor pressure vessel under pressurized thermal shock. In order to estimate crack behavior under combined ...