Abstract: Open link lifting chain is routinely proof loaded during manufacture. However, the effect of residual stresses imposed by this operation on the fatigue strength of the chain has not been ...

Abstract: Intersecting bore geometries are used in a number of industrial applications such as in fluid ends of reciprocating pumps. Maximum tensile stresses at stress concentration points in the block ...

Abstract: Published elastic stress concentration factors are shown to underestimate stresses in the root of a shoulder filleted shaft in bending by as much as 21 percent, and in tension by as much as ...

Abstract: Crossbore intersections in liquid ends of positive displacement pumps (PDPs) have regions with high stress concentration. Due to the cyclic loading that occurs in most PDPs, these stress ...

Abstract: A thick-walled cylindrical specimen containing an external circumferential groove was subjected to external pressure. To investigate the maximum pressure sustainable by the reduced wall thickness, ...