Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology: Recent submissions
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Reliability Study of the Hydraulically Expanded Tube-to-Tubesheet Joint
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)A three-dimensional parametrized finite element model is established for the nonlinear analysis of the hydraulically expanded tube-to-tubesheet joint. Distribution of the residual contact pressure ... -
Reliability Analysis of the Tube Hydroforming Process Based on Forming Limit Diagram
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Tube hydroforming is an attractive manufacturing process in the automotive industry because it has several advantages over alternative methods. In order to determine the reliability of the process, ... -
Control of Static Shape, Dynamic Oscillation, and Thermally Induced Vibration of Nozzles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Static shape actuation and dynamic control of nozzles can improve their performance, accuracy, reliability, etc. A new curved laminated piezothermoelastic hexahedral finite element is formulated ... -
Statistical and Constraint Loss Size Effects on Cleavage Fracture–Implications to Measuring Toughness in the Transition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)A systematic investigation of the effects of specimen size on the cleavage fracture toughness of a typical pressure vessel steel is reported. Size dependence arises both from: (i) statistical ... -
Ultimate Bending Capacity and Buckling of Pressurized 90 deg Steel Elbows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The paper examines the nonlinear elastic-plastic response of internally pressurized 90 deg pipe elbows under in-plane and out-of-plane bending. Nonlinear shell elements from a general-purpose finite ... -
Unified Interpretation of Crack Growth Rates of Ni-base Alloys in LWR Environments
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Primary water stress corrosion cracking (PWSCC) of vessel penetrations (VP) fabricated from nickel based alloys such as alloy 600 and alloy 182 weld metal has created a great demand for ... -
Effect of Charpy V Notch Position on Impact Toughness of all Weld Metal Welds and its Relevance With ASME Codes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)A neutral flux and four different wires were used to produce all weld metal submerged-arc multipass welds. Impact Charpy V transition curves were obtained from two testing series, each with a ... -
Sloshing Effects on the Seismic Design of Horizontal-Cylindrical and Spherical Industrial Vessels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The present paper investigates sloshing effects on the earthquake design of horizontal-cylindrical and spherical industrial vessels. Assuming small-amplitude free-surface elevation, a linearized ... -
Passive Control of Seismic Response of Piping Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Passive energy dissipating devices, such as elastoplastic dampers (EPDs) can be used for eliminating snubbers and reducing the response of piping systems subjected to seismic loads. Cantilever ... -
Structural Integrity of Flexible Piping Systems Conveying Liquids
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This work presents a structural integrity model for piping systems conveying liquids which takes the axial fluid-structure interaction into account. The model is used to numerically investigate ... -
Low and High Cycle Fatigue and Cyclic Elasto-Plastic Behavior of the P355NL1 Steel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)A normalized fine grain carbon low alloy steel, P355NL1 (TStE355), intended for service in welded pressure vessels, where notch toughness is of high importance, has been investigated. Low and ... -
Mean Shear Stress Effect for a Notch-Free Ductile Material Under Pure Cyclic Torsional Loads
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The relationship of torque versus angle of rotation stabilizes after only a few cycles so that the alternating stress will become a constant as long as the maximum shear stress is less than ... -
Section XII Transport Tank Code Preview—Cargo Tanks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)ASME Section XII Transport Tank Code will have an impact on the regulations related to the construction and continued service of highway cargo tanks used in the transportation of dangerous ... -
Overview of the New B&PV Code Section XII Transport Tank Rules
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The first edition of Section XII, “Rules for Construction and Continued Service of Transport Tanks,” was issued with the 2004 edition of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code. Transport ... -
An Efficient Methodology for Fatigue Reliability Analysis for Mechanical Components
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This paper presents an efficient methodology to solve a fatigue reliability problem. The fatigue failure mechanism and its reliability assessment must be treated as a rate process since, in ... -
An Attempt to Scale the Vibrations of Water Pipes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The goal of the paper is to provide an estimation of the vibrations of a water pipe subjected to standard turbulent excitations. Firstly, a simplified expression of the acoustic pressure ... -
On the Transition From Non-BLEVE to BLEVE Failure for a 1.8M3 Propane Tank
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)A series of fire tests were conducted on nine, 1.8m3(500USgal) ASME code propane pressure vessels to study the significance of pressure relief valve behavior on tank survivability to fire ... -
The Role of Turbulence Models for Predicting a Thermal Stratification
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)A numerical study of the evaluation of turbulence models for predicting the thermal stratification phenomenon is presented. The tested models are the elliptic blending turbulence model (EBM), the ... -
Determination of Shakedown Limit Load for a 90-Degree Pipe Bend Using a Simplified Technique
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)In this paper a simplified technique is presented to determine the shakedown limit load of a 90-degree pipe bend subjected to constant internal pressure and cyclic in-plane closing bending ... -
A Failure Assessment Method for a Pipe Bend Subjected to Both a Bending Moment and Internal Pressure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This paper proposes a new failure assessment method for a steel pipe bend subjected to both a bending moment and internal pressure. Consistent with previous studies, it was shown that the ...