Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology: Recent submissions
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Evaluation of Methods for Detecting and Monitoring of Corrosion Damage in Risers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Offshore pipeline failure statistics have been collected for more than 30 years now and illustrate that the riser predominantly fails as a result of corrosion. The consistent wetting and drying ... -
Estimation of Corrosion Damage in Steel Reinforced Mortar Using Guided Waves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Corrosion of reinforced concrete is a chronic infrastructure problem, particularly in areas with deicing salt and marine exposure. To maintain structural integrity, a testing method is needed to ... -
Ray Based Model for the Ultrasonic Time-of-Flight Diffraction Simulation of Thin Walled Structure Inspection
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)It is necessary to size the cracklike defects accurately in order to extend the life of thin-walled (<10mm) components (such as pressure vessels) particularly for aerospace applications. This ... -
Defect Classification in Pipes by Neural Networks Using Multiple Guided Ultrasonic Wave Features Extracted After Wavelet Processing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)This paper casts pipe inspection by ultrasonic guided waves in a feature extraction and automatic classification framework. The specific defect under investigation is a small notch cut in an ... -
Gas Coupled Ultrasonic Measurement of Pipeline Wall Thickness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Magnetic Flux Leakage (MFL) is currently the standard method of gas pipeline inspection in spite of the fact that the accuracy of MFL is only about 10%. Ultrasonic inspection has much better ... -
Optimized Inspection of Thin-Walled Pipe Welds Using Advanced Ultrasonic Techniques
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)In this paper an effective way to optimize the inspection of welds in thin-walled pipe less than 6 mm (0.24 in.) thick using automated ultrasonic testing (AUT) is described. AUT offers a ... -
Magnetostrictive Sensor for Generating and Detecting Plate Guided Waves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The development of a magnetostrictive sensor for generating and detecting guided waves in ferromagnetic plate is described. The sensor consists of a channel-shaped core and coils wound around ... -
Small Diameter Remote Field Eddy Current Inspection for Unpiggable Pipelines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)In-line inspection tools cannot inspect most of the natural gas transmission pipelines and distribution mains due to restrictions in the pipelines that will not allow a tool equipped with current ... -
Numerical and Experimental Study on the Cavitating Flow Characteristics of Pressurized Liquid Nitrogen in a Horizontal Rectangular Nozzle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The thermodynamic effect on cryogenic cavitating flow characteristics of pressurized liquid nitrogen in a horizontal rectangular nozzle is precisely investigated by numerical analysis based on an ... -
Seismic Requalification of an Underground RCC Duct
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The present paper deals with the reevaluation of design stresses and assessment of safety margins available for an underground reinforced cement concrete (RCC) duct. For stress analysis, a ... -
Analysis on the Dynamic Load in a Water Pool during Air Discharge from Submerged Sparger
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)This paper presents a study of the applicability of the VOF (volume of fluid) method to estimation of dynamic load in a water pool induced by oscillation of bubbles that are ejected through ... -
Benchmark of a Fast-Running Computational Tool for Analysis of Massive Radioactive Material Packages in Fire Environments
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Federal regulations (10CFR71) require radioactive material transport packages to safely withstand a 30min fully engulfing fire. The three-dimensional Container Analysis Fire Environment (CAFE-3D ) ... -
Seismic Fragility Analysis of a Water Storage Structure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Probabilistic seismic risk assessment (PSRA) of a structure is essential to identify the seismic vulnerability of structural members associated with the different stages of damage. Seismic fragility ... -
On Circumferential Disposition of Pipe Defects by Long-Range Ultrasonic Guided Waves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Ultrasonic guided waves have been used extensively for long-range pipe inspections. The technique is based on detecting the guided wave echoes reflected from pipe defects located at a remote ... -
Special Issue on the Nondestructive Evaluation of Pipeline and Vessel Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)This special issue of the journal is dedicated to some contemporary aspects of nondestructive evaluation applied to pipeline and vessel structures. This critical area of research, development, ... -
Stress and Temperature Effects on Ultrasonic Properties in Cross-Linked and High Density Polyethylene
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Cross-linked polyethylene is widely used in the manufacturing of rotationally molded tanks for the agriculture, petroleum, and chemical industries. These tanks are exposed to a number of environmental ... -
Acoustic Microscopy Applied to Ceramic Pressure Vessels and Associated Components
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Alumina ceramic is being used extensively for external pressure vessels in naval applications. The material is also used in valves and other components, where reliability, immunity from corrosion, ... -
Sonic Pressure Vessel Sensor
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)A sensor method and apparatus are described for measuring the pressure of a gas within a sealed commercial pressure vessel mounted into an assembly. A sonic transducer is used to apply an ... -
Condition Monitoring of a Nuclear Power Plant Check Valve Based on Acoustic Emission and a Neural Network
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The analysis of acoustic emission (AE) signals produced during object leakage is promising for condition monitoring of the components. In this study, an advanced condition monitoring technique ... -
Introduction of the Element Interaction Technique for Welding Analysis and Simulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The residual stresses generated due to welding in pressure components may have several harmful effects, such as decrease in the resistance to cycling load and corrosive environments. The analysis ...