Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology: Recent submissions
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Global and Local Elastic-Plastic Stress Analysis of Coke Drum Under Thermal-Mechanical Loadings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Coke drums are critical equipment in the petroleum industry. The failure modes of coke drums include excessive bulging deformation and fatigue cracking. The elastic-plastic behavior of a coke ... -
Finite Element Analysis of the Cyclic Stress Amplitude of Threaded Fasteners Using Helical Thread Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Fatigue failures of bolted joints frequently lead to serious accidents in machines and structures. It is well known that fatigue failure is likely to occur around the first thread root of the ... -
Crack Growth Under High-Cycle Thermal Fatigue Loading: Effects of Stress Gradient and Relaxation in a Crack Network
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)High-cycle thermal fatigue is a critical problem in nuclear power plants. To prevent crack initiation, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers has issued a guideline for design, although growth ... -
Editorial
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)My best wishes to all of you for a healthy and happy 2010. -
Fluid Pressures on Unanchored Rigid Flat-Bottom Cylindrical Tanks Under Action of Uplifting Acceleration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)To protect flat-bottom cylindrical tanks against severe damage from uplift motion, accurate evaluation of accompanying fluid pressures is indispensable. This paper presents a mathematical solution ... -
Long-Range Pipeline Monitoring by Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Distributed fiber optic sensing presents unique features that have no match in conventional sensing techniques. The ability to measure temperatures and strain at thousands of points along a ... -
Fluid Pressures on Unanchored Rigid Rectangular Tanks Under Action of Uplifting Acceleration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Although uplift motion of flat-bottom cylindrical shell tanks has been considered to contribute toward various damages to the tanks, the mechanics were not fully understood. As well as uplift ... -
Effects of Negative Biaxial Loadings and Notch on Failure Assessment Diagrams
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)The failure assessment diagram (FAD) is a simplified and robust flaw assessment methodology, which simultaneously connects two dominant failure criteria: linear elastic fracture mechanics on one ... -
Stress Corrosion Crack Shape Development Using AFEA
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Typical ASME Section XI subcritical cracking analyses assume an idealized flaw shape driven by stress intensity factors developed for semi-elliptical shaped flaws. Recent advanced finite element ... -
Rules for the Assessment of Interacting Cracks Under Creep Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Multiple interacting cracks are generally treated as an enveloping single crack if the prescribed criterion is satisfied in the current fitness-for-service codes. To examine the applicability of ... -
Improved Imaging of Fatigue Crack Profile in Thick Cruciform Samples Using Ultrasonic Phased Array Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)The determination of depth profile of vertical fatigue cracks generated in thick cruciform samples using an ultrasonic phased array is investigated in this paper. The cracks were formed by ... -
Crack Geometry Effect on Stress-Strain Fields for Crack Under Biaxial Loading
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)With increasing demand of high-strength and high-pressure pipelines in gas transmission industries, the fracture control design of pipelines has been a driving factor to ensure the integrity of ... -
Comparison of Neutron and Synchrotron Diffraction Measurements of Residual Stress in Bead-on-Plate Weldments
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)This paper explores the use of neutron and synchrotron diffractions for the evaluation of residual stresses in welded components. It has been shown that it is possible to achieve very good ... -
Improved Prediction Method for Estimating Notch Elastic-Plastic Strain
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Notch stress-strain conversion (NSSC) rules are widely used to estimate nonlinear and history-dependent stress-strain behavior of the notch components or structures. This paper focuses on the ... -
Effects of Structural Perturbations on Strain Growth in Containment Vessels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Strain growth is a phenomenon observed in the elastic response of containment vessels subjected to internal blast loading. The local dynamic response of a containment vessel may become larger ... -
A Comparison Between Measured and Modeled Residual Stresses in a Circumferentially Butt-Welded P91 Steel Pipe
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Residual macrostresses in a multipass circumferentially butt-welded P91 ferritic steel pipe have been determined numerically and experimentally. The welded joint in a pipe with an outer diameter ... -
The Beneficial Contribution of Realistic Autofrettage to the Load-Carrying Capacity of Thick-Walled Spherical Pressure Vessels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Increased strength-to-weight ratio and extended fatigue life are the main objectives in the optimal design of modern pressure vessels. These two goals can mutually be achieved by creating a ... -
Lower and Upper Bound Shakedown Analysis of Structures With Temperature-Dependent Yield Stress
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Based upon the kinematic theorem of Koiter (1960, “ General Theorems for Elastic Plastic Solids,” in Progress in Solid Mechanics 1, J. N. Sneddon and R. Hill, eds., North-Holland, Amsterdam, ... -
Optimization of a Weld Overlay on a Plate Structure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)An overlay weld repair procedure on a 1066.8×1066.8 mm2 square plate 25.4 mm thick was simulated to compute the 3D transient temperature, microstructure, strain, stress, and displacement of ... -
Effect of Autofrettage in the Thick-Walled Cylinder With a Radial Cross-Bore
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)The effect of autofrettage on the stress level in thick-walled cylinders with a radial cross-bore is investigated by applying inelastic finite element analysis with cyclic pressure loading. A ...