Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology: Recent submissions
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Fracture Toughness of HSLA Coiled Tubing Used in Oil Wells Operations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Coiled Tubings are thin walled steel tubes of 25–89 mm diameter and thousands meters long, used in the oil industry for production and maintenance services. They suffer plastic deformation ... -
Finite Element Simulation of Welding Sequences Effect on Residual Stresses in Multipass Butt-Welded Stainless Steel Pipes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In this paper, a finite element simulation, based on abaqus software is presented for analyzing the temperature history and the residual stress states in multipass welds in stainless steel pipe. ... -
Deflections of A Multipass Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger Bolted Joint Subjected to Nonaxisymmetric Thermal Loading
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Despite the fact that multipass shell-and-tube heat exchangers operating at high temperature are subject to frequent problems related to flange sealing, there is neither detailed explanations for ... -
Statistical Evaluation of Local Stress and Strain of Three Dimensional Polycrystalline Material at Elevated Temperature
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The present paper presents results of numerical simulation for statistical evaluation of stress and strain at elevated temperature from view point of crystal plasticity level by employing a new ... -
A New Approach to Elastodynamic Response of Cylindrical Shell Based on Developed Solution Structure Theorem for Wave Equation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In this paper, a developed solution structure theorem has been provided. It can be used to solve the wave equation about the structural response of cylinder under the dynamic pressure. This ... -
A Global Limit Load Solution for Plates With Embedded Off-Set Elliptical Cracks Under Combined Tension and Bending
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)A global limit load solution is derived in this paper for embedded off-set elliptical cracks in a plate under combined tension and bending, based on the net-section collapse principle. The new ... -
Characteristics and Modeling of Multiple Direction Optimized-Friction Pendulum System With Numerous Sliding Interfaces Subjected to Multidirectional Excitations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In this paper, a base isolator called a multiple direction optimized-friction pendulum system (Multiple DO-FPS) with numerous sliding interfaces is proposed. To understand the mechanical behavior ... -
On Shakedown, Ratchet and Limit Analyses of Defective Pipeline
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In this study, the limit load, shakedown, and ratchet limit of a defective pipeline subjected to constant internal pressure and a cyclic thermal gradient are analyzed. Ratchet limit and maximum ... -
On the Ratchet Analysis of a Cracked Welded Pipe
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)This paper presents the ratchet limit analysis of a pipe with an axisymmetric circumferential crack in a mismatched weld by using the extended linear matching method (LMM). Two loading conditions ... -
Shakedown of Thick Cylinders With Radial Openings Under Thermomechanical Loadings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Shakedown and ratcheting behaviors of thick-walled cylindrical vessels with radial openings subjected to cyclic thermomechanical loadings are investigated by the inelastic finite element analysis. ... -
Nonlinear Behavior of Preloaded Bolted Joints Under a Cyclic Separating Load
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The nonlinear plastic deformation behavior of a clamped bolted joint model under a separating service load is investigated using analytical, finite element, and experimental techniques. An ... -
Influence of Chemical Compositions on Lower Ferrite-Austenite Transformation Temperatures in 9% Cr Steels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Computational thermodynamics approach was used to predict the ranges of the lower ferrite-austenite transformation temperatures, A1 ’s, in three 9% Cr steels. The predicted A1 ranges were: 766–856 ... -
Risk Analysis for the Urban Buried Gas Pipeline With Fuzzy Comprehensive Assessment Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Based on the statistical analysis from a great deal of failure cases, generally, the failure causes of buried pipeline can be classified into four factors, namely, third-party damage, erosion–corrosion ... -
Economic and Technical Efficiency of High Performance Abrasive Waterjet Cutting
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Abrasive waterjets have recently become a popular tool for mechanical machining. With its great advantages of geometric and material flexibility and its ability to cut hard-to-machine material, ... -
Development of Nondestructive Test and Safety Assessment of Electrofusion Joints for Connecting Polyethylene Pipes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Polyethylene (PE) pipes are widely used in transporting natural gas since 1960s. However, there are few published literatures on method for safety assessment of PE pipes. This paper introduces ... -
Cover Requirement and Stability of Horizontally Bent Buried Pipelines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)A method of calculating soil cover requirements for horizontally bent buried pipelines is described. In sequence, the results of a comprehensive three-dimensional finite element analysis are used ... -
Exploring the Effect of V-Shaped Cut at Blade Exit of a Double Volute Centrifugal Pump
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The effect of V-cut at impeller blades’ exit on internal pressure fluctuations, case vibration, and performance of a double volute boiler-feed pump has been investigated. Scaled model pump and ... -
Effect of Welding Conditions on Residual Stress and Stress Corrosion Cracking Behavior at Butt-Welding Joints of Stainless Steel Pipes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) in Type 316 L low-carbon austenitic stainless steel recirculation pipes have been observed near butt-welding joints. These SCC in Type 316 L stainless steel grow ... -
Evaluation of Fracture Toughness by Master Curve Approach Using Miniature C(T) Specimens
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The fracture toughness master curve shows the relationship between the median of fracture toughness and temperature in the ductile–brittle transition temperature region of ferritic steels such as ... -
Fluidelastic Instability in Normal and Parallel Triangular Arrays of Finned Tubes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)An experimental study was carried out to investigate fluidelastic instability in finned tube bundles in normal and parallel triangular arrays. Three arrays of each geometry type were studied ...