Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology: Recent submissions
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Thermal Protection Provided by Impact Limiters to a Containment Seal Within a Truck Package
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The Container Analysis Fire Environment (CAFE ) computer code is used to simulate the response of a generic legal-weight-truck package to 3h fires. Simulations are performed with the package ... -
Experimental and Numerical Techniques in Fluids
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The development of fluid mechanics is briefly reviewed, and the importance of fluid flows to heat and mass transport in nature and also in science and engineering is outlined. The early ... -
Leak Before Break: Studies in Support of New R6 Guidance on Leak Rate Evaluation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The concept of leak-before-break (LBB) is often used in safety cases for pressure systems, particularly, in the nuclear industry. An important factor in making a LBB case is in the prediction ... -
Design by Analysis: Direct Route for Cases With Pressure and Thermal Action
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This paper focuses on the usage of direct route for design by analysis, which is included in the new European standard for unfired pressure vessels (CEN, 2002, “ Unfired Pressure Vessels-Part ... -
Proposition of Helical Thread Modeling With Accurate Geometry and Finite Element Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Distinctive mechanical behavior of bolted joints is caused by the helical shape of thread geometry. Recently, a number of papers have been published to elucidate the strength or loosening ... -
Prediction of Thermoacoustic Vibration of Burner/Furnace Systems in Utility Boilers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Seven burner/furnace systems, three of which vibrated and four of which did not vibrate in operation are evaluated for thermoacoustic oscillations. The evaluation is based on the Rijke and ... -
Evaluating Plastic Loads in Torispherical Heads Using a New Criterion of Collapse
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)In ASME Design by Analysis, the plastic load of pressure vessels is established using the twice elastic slope criterion of plastic collapse. This is based on a characteristic load-deformation ... -
Minimum Material Design for Propane Cylinder End Closures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This study addresses the design of DOT-4BA refillable cylinders using both experimental and numerical approaches. Using traditional design methods, these cylinders often experience buckling on the ... -
Integrity of Roller-Expanded Tube-to-Tubesheet Joints With Overenlarged Tubesheet Holes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This paper presents the results of an experimental investigation conducted to evaluate the effect of initial tube-tubesheet diametral clearance on the integrity of roller-expanded tube-to-tubesheet ... -
Residual Thermal Stresses Induced by Local Heat Treatment on Spherical Vessels and Their Influential Factors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)For the purpose of finding a way to control effectively the residual thermal stresses induced by local heat treatment on spherical vessels, a thermal tracing program is developed successfully ... -
Magnetostrictive Microactuations and Modal Sensitivities of Thin Magnetoelastic Shells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This study is to evaluate distributed microscopic actuation characteristics and control actions of segmented magnetostrictive actuator patches laminated on a flexible cylindrical shell panel. A ... -
Plastic Collapse Assessment Procedure for Vessel With Local Thin Area Simultaneously Subjected to Internal Pressure and External Bending Moment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Assessment of the local thin area should be undertaken for both tension and compression bending. In this paper, simplified reference stresses for a flaw in a cylinder are proposed. By using ... -
Finite Element Modeling of a Lightweight Composite Blast Containment Vessel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This paper presents various approaches for finite element modeling of a cylindrical lightweight composite vessel for blast containment purposes. The vessel has a steel liner that is internally ... -
The European Creep Collaborative Committee (ECCC) Approach to Creep Data Assessment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The European Creep Collaborative Committee (ECCC) approach to creep data assessment has now been established for almost ten years. The methodology covers the analysis of rupture strength and ... -
Prediction of Failure Pressures in Pipelines With Corrosion Defects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The mathematical model to predict failure pressures in corroded pipelines proposed in this work is based on the analysis of the original model by Cronin and Pick. New definitions and interpretations ... -
Asymptotic Analysis for Buckling of Undersea Corroded Pipelines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This paper deals with the buckling phenomenon of undersea corroded pipelines. The corrosion degree of the pipelines is characterized by two parameters: the angular extension and the corrosion ... -
Failure of X52 Wrinkled Pipelines Subjected to Monotonic Axial Deformation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This study was undertaken to investigate and understand the behavior of a wrinkled energy pipeline when subjected to sustained monotonic axial compressive deformation. This study involved both ... -
Mechanical Properties of Cold Bend Pipes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Cold bends are frequently required in energy pipelines in order to change the vertical and horizontal orientations of the pipeline route. They are produced by plastically bending a pipe joint ... -
A Time-Reversal Defect-Identifying Method for Guided Wave Inspection in Pipes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The temporal-spatial focusing effect of the time-reversal method on the guided wave inspection in pipes was investigated theoretically in the current research with a transfer function. The amplitude ... -
On the Estimation of Failure Rates of Multiple Pipeline Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)In this work, the statistical methods for the reliability of repairable systems have been used to produce a methodology capable to estimate the annualized failure rate of a pipeline population ...