Abstract: The PVRC Subcommittee on Effective Utilization of Yield Strength has conducted an extensive series of pressurized burst tests on constrained disk specimens of seven steels. Elasto-plastic analyses ...

Abstract: The paper presents a retrospective on the development and applications of fracture mechanics-based toughness requirements and flaw evaluation methodology in Sections III and XI of the ASME Code. ...

Abstract: The overspeed capability of the large steel flywheels used on light water reactor primary coolant pumps has been evaluated through a combined analytical and experimental effort. Limiting speeds ...