Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology: Recent submissions
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Continuum Damage Mechanics Modeling of High-Temperature Flaw Propagation: Application to Creep Crack Growth in 316H Standardized Specimens and Nuclear Reactor Components
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/10/2023 )Predicting creep crack growth (CCG) of flaws found during operation in high-temperature alloy components is essential for assessing the remaining lifetime of those components. While defect assessment procedures are available ... -
Numerical Fatigue Life Evaluation With Experimental Results for Type III Accumulators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/10/2023 )Type III accumulator is widely used in hydrogen stations. A high-cost pressure cycle test is mandatory to ensure the safety of the accumulator in present regulations. To reduce the high cost, the aim is to develop a ... -
Microstructure Analysis and Finite Element Modelling for Creep Failure Prediction and Fitness-For-Service Assessment of Superheater Tubes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/10/2023 )This study aimed to perform a fitness-for-service assessment and investigate the root cause of failure of Grade 14CrMo3 steel seamless tubes typically used in superheaters in power generation plants. For this purpose, ... -
Creep-Fatigue Life Property of P91 Welded Piping Subjected to Bending and Torsional Moments at High Temperature
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/10/2023 )In recent years, the role of thermal power plants has shifted from providing a baseload to providing supplemental supply to compensate for fluctuations in the output of renewable energy sources. Thus, the operation of these ... -
Numerical Prediction of the Streamwise Fluidelastic Instability
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/10/2023 )Recent experimental investigations have shown that tube arrays can become unstable in the streamwise direction. This is contrary to the long-held notion that fluidelastic instability is only a concern in the direction ... -
Thermally Assisted Rotational Autofrettage of Long Cylinders With Free Ends
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/11/2023 )Autofrettage is a widely employed process for strengthening cylindrical or spherical pressure vessels. The process involves applying a uniform load to the inner wall of a vessel to cause a controlled plastic deformation, ... -
Investigation of Constraint Effect and Fracture Mode for Mixed Mode Inclination Surface Crack in Infinite Plate Under Compression
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/10/2023 )The stress field, constraint effect, and fracture mode transition at crack tip of mixed mode I-II-III inclination surface crack under compression have been investigated. The effects of geometrical configurations (relative ... -
Deformation and Dynamic Response of Steel Belt Staggered Multilayer Cylindrical Shell Under External Blast Loading
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/10/2023 )The deformation and dynamic response of a multilayer cylindrical shell composed of an inner shell and fourteen outer layers under external blast loads of different trinitro-toluene equivalency weights were studied. A ... -
Condition Monitoring of Nuclear Equipment-Piping Systems Subjected to Normal Operating Loads Using Deep Neural Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 5/25/2023 )Various fields in engineering explore the applicability of deep learning within condition monitoring. With the resurgence of nuclear energy due to electricity and carbon-free power generation demand, ensuring safe operations ... -
Study on Numerical Simulation Method of Fracture Behavior of Pipeline Girth Weld
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 5/25/2023 )The failure accidents in girth weld of pipelines occur frequently due to the combination of internal defects and external loads. However, the research on the fracture behavior of girth weld defects is relatively poor at ... -
Crack Identification by Digital Image Correlation Method Using Crack Shape as Prior Information
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 5/31/2023 )A new crack identification method that estimates the cracks in invisible locations based on the surface deformation measured by digital image correlation (DIC) is developed. An inverse problem is setup to estimate such ... -
Robust Optimization of UOE Forming Process Considering Inhomogeneity of Material Properties
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 6/14/2023 )The properties inhomogeneity of steel plates will result in uncertainty of forming quality of large diameter UOE oil pipes and increase the risk of pipeline failure. In this paper, a robust design method for UOE forming ... -
Damage Assessment of Similar Martensitic Welds Under Creep, Fatigue, and Creep-Fatigue Loading
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 5/25/2023 )For the assessment of welds under high-temperature conditions in the creep or creep-fatigue regimes, the knowledge of the damage location and its temporal evolution is of high importance. The local failure behavior of weld ... -
Simulation of Liquor Blow, Thrust Force, and Risk of Condensation Hydraulic Shock in a Pulp-Digester Piping System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 5/25/2023 )This study is an industrial case study for the application of a validated flashing and hydraulic shock modeling approach to the safety and design of a reactor blow line. The maximum flowrate is important for sizing of ... -
Failure Risk Assessment of Pressurized Cylinder by Magnetic Measurements
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 6/14/2023 )Failure risk assessment of pressure vessels and piping systems is an important part of their integrity management. Obviously, there are many shortcomings in risk analysis using only traditional procedures, which are mostly ... -
Burst of Internally Pressurized Steel Torispheres
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 5/25/2023 )The paper begins with derivation of true stress–true strain data, including postnecking section. Available results of past uni-axial tests on round 10 mm diameter and 200 mm long mild steel samples are the basis of the ... -
Reviewer's Recognition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2/21/2023 )The Reviewers of the Year Award is given to reviewers who have made an outstanding contribution to the journal in terms of the quantity, quality, and turnaround time of reviews completed during the past 12 months. The prize ... -
Burst Pressure Solutions of Thin and Thick-Walled Cylindrical Vessels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Pressure vessels (PVs) are widely used in the energy industry. Accurate burst pressure is critical to structural design and safe operation for both thin and thick-walled PVs. The traditional strength theories utilized a ... -
Guided Wave Damage Location of Pressure Vessel Based on Optimized Explainable Convolutional Neural Network for Multivariate Time Series Classification Neural Network
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Guided wave is a key nondestructive technique for structural health monitoring due to its high sensitivity to structural changes and long propagation distance. However, to achieve high accuracy for damage location, large ... -
Study on the Residual Stress Distribution of Bi-Directional Cold Expansion Process Performed on Open Holes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Traditional unidirectional cold expansion technology usually generates non-uniform distribution of residual stress in the thickness direction of holes, which is harmful to the improvement of fatigue life of holes. The ...