Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology: Recent submissions
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Cold Sprayed Liners for Gun Tubes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The use of refractory materials is currently being developed for gun barrel coatings and liners. Explosive cladding, as well as a novel gun liner emplacement with elastomeric material (GLEEM) ... -
Design and Test of an Extensometer for Strain Monitoring of High Temperature Pipelines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In this paper, an extensometer was specifically designed for online deformation monitoring of high temperature pipes and its applicability was verified experimentally. The design procedure and the ... -
Low Cycle Fatigue Behavior and Seismic Assessment for Elbow Pipe Having Local Wall Thinning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)One of the concerned technical issues in the nuclear piping under operation is pipe wall thinning caused by flow accelerated corrosion. Recently, it has been reported that the elbow section ... -
Improved Finite Element Model to Predict the Reverse Loading Behavior of Autofrettaged A723 and HB7 Cylinders
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Ideal isotropic or kinematic hardening is often utilized in order to simplify the modeling of the loading and reverse loading behavior of materials when using finite element analysis. Unfortunately, ... -
120 mm Prestressed Carbon Fiber/Thermoplastic Overwrapped Gun Tubes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The emphasis on lightweight large caliber weapons systems has placed the focus on the use of advanced composite materials. Using composite materials not only directly removes weight from the ... -
Advanced Gun System Gun and Projectile Dynamic Model Results and Correlation to Test Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)BAE Systems is currently developing and testing a 155 mm advanced gun system (AGS) and a long range land attack projectile (LRLAP) as a part of the DDG-1000 ship development program. For ... -
Material Modeling for Autofrettage Stress Analysis Including the “Single Effective Material”
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Analytical and numerical stress analyses of the autofrettage process have made great strides in the last few years. The major challenge is no longer the stress analysis process but the ... -
Influence of Rotating Band Construction on Gun Tube Loading—Part I: Numerical Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The effects of changes in geometries and material properties of rotating band and long range artillery projectile shell body on gun tube stress are presented. The results are based on numerical ... -
Impact of Intensity of Residual Stress Field Upon Reyielding and Re-Autofrettage of an Autofrettaged Thick Cylinder
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Re-autofrettage has been identified as a significant, cost-effective method to achieve higher reyield pressure (RYP) and/or weight reduction in large caliber gun tubes. For a given overstrain, ... -
Influence of Rotating Band Construction on Gun Tube Loading—Part II: Measurement and Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The soft deformable metallic rotating band of large caliber projectiles prevents the gas leakage between the gun tube wall and the shell body by the band pressure on contact surfaces during ... -
Constitutive Modeling of Multistage Creep Damage in Isotropic and Transversely Isotropic Alloys With Elastic Damage
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In the pressure vessel and piping and power industries, creep deformation has continued to be an important design consideration. Directionally solidified components have become commonplace. Creep ... -
Ratcheting Studies on Type 304LN Stainless Steel Elbows subjected to Combined Internal Pressure and In-Plane Bending Moment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)“Ratcheting” is a phenomenon which leads to reduction in fatigue life of a structural component by loss of ductility due to cycle by cycle accumulation of plastic strain. Ratcheting occurs in ... -
Assessment of the Environmental Effects on the Performance of FRP Repaired Steel Pipes Subjected to Internal Pressure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The use of composite materials for repair and rehabilitation of corroded steel pipes has been increasingly growing in the oil and gas industry. However, there exists a noticeable gap in the ... -
Simplified Fluid-Structure Model for Duckbill Valve Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Duckbill valves (DBVs), made of a fabric reinforced layered rubber composite, are extensively used for nonreturn axial water flows with low back pressures. Fluid–structure interaction (FSI) is ... -
Third Special Section on Pressure Vessels Technology Applied to Gun Tubes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Nowadays, artillery and armor are characterized by rapid reaction, high maneuverability and mobility, and high technological sophistication. Modern artillery and tank guns call for maximal range, ... -
Leak Localization in Pipelines via Computational Pipeline Monitoring
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Leaks in pipelines are unintentional releases of quantities of products from pipelines into the environment. Leaks contribute to the environmental pollution, promote corrosion and equipment failures, ... -
In Memoriam: David P. Kendall 1929–2011
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)David P. Kendall was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and spent most of his life in upstate New York. He obtained a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. ... -
Electric Field Analysis of Simultaneous Evaluation of Crack on an Inner Pipe Surface and Pipe Wall Thickness Using Direct-Current Potential Difference Method of Multiple-Probe Type
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The direct-current potential difference method (DC-PDM) is a promising nondestructive technique for evaluating cracks in the conductors on the basis of change in current paths or the potential ... -
Limit Load Solutions for Cracked Elbows Subjected to Internal Pressure and In-Plane Bending
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In this article, limit load solutions for cracked elbows containing through-wall and part through-wall axial and circumferential cracks under internal pressure and in-plane bending loading are ... -
A Novel Comparison of Design-by-Analysis Methods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)There exist some atypical loads on pressure vessels during transportation. This is particularly true when the pressure vessel weighs over 500 tonnes. In this example vessel, the transportation ...