Abstract: A 152-mm-thick cylindrical test vessel fabricated of A533, grade B, class 1 steel, was pressurized to failure at −23°C. The vessel contained a fatigue-sharpened notch adjacent to a half-bead ...

Abstract: Thermal-shock experiments with steel cylinders have been conducted at ORNL to investigate the behavior of long axial inner-surface flaws during loading conditions similar to those imposed by a ...