Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology: Recent submissions
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Hydraulic Effects on a Large Piping System During Strong Earthquakes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)Liquid in a large piping system could become a resonance column under axial excitations. A 1000-m long closed-boundaries pipeline with pressure wave propagation velocity of 1000 m/s would have ... -
Prediction of Fluid Temperatures From Measurements of Outside Wall Temperatures in Pipes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)The monitoring of the fatigue induced by thermal transients in thick-walled structures becomes more and more currently performed, mainly on equipment the failure of which could present severe ... -
An Evaluation of Analysis Methodologies for Predicting Cleavage Arrest of a Deep Crack in an RPV Subjected to PTS Loading Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)Several calculational procedures are compared for predicting cleavage arrest of a deep crack in the wall of a prototypical reactor pressure vessel (RPV) subjected to pressurized-thermal-shock (PTS) ... -
Estimation of Elastic Follow-Up Behavior on 18Cr-8Ni Steel Using Simplified Inelastic Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)Elastic follow-up behavior was estimated using simplified inelastic methods newly developed, where only a constitutive equation of creep and a triangle of elastic follow-up were employed in the ... -
Unusual Acoustic Vibration of a Shell and Tube Process Heat Exchanger
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)Acoustic vibration was experienced in a shell and tube process heat exchanger over a large range of operating conditions. Test and analysis results confirmed that the vibration was of an unusual ... -
Stress Limits for Pressurized Piping Branch Junctions Under In-Plane Run Pipe Simulated Seismic Loadings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)This paper summarizes results from 420 tests on 23 fabricated or machined, pressurized piping branch junctions subjected to simulated seismic loadings that induce resonant in-plane run pipe ... -
Contact Analysis for Collinear Multiple Cracks in Residual Stress Field
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)A method is proposed for analyzing stress intensity factors and crack profiles for collinear multiple cracks perpendicular to welded joints in an infinite plate. Using the basic solution of a ... -
The Effect of Temperature and Cyclic Frequency Upon Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Several Steels in an Elevated Temperature Aqueous Environment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)The fatigue crack propagation (FCP) behavior of several ASTM A302-B and A508-2 steels was characterized in deaerated elevated temperature aqueous environment. FCP behavior was determined over the ... -
Validation of Creep Crack Growth Life Estimation Methodology/Hot Reheat Steam Pipes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)This paper documents a validation study of a creep crack growth life estimation methodology developed by Riedel and Rice, Saxena, and Bassani which has been implemented into a Babcock & ... -
Background of the Half-Pipe Jacket Rules in Section VIII, Division 1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)New rules for the design of half-pipe jackets were developed by the ASME Subgroup on Design of Section VIII. This article gives the background information for the derivation and various ... -
Structural Integrity Assessment of Carbon and Low-Alloy Steel Pressure Vessels Using a Simplified Fracture Mechanics Procedure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)This paper describes a simplified fracture analysis procedure which was developed by Pellini to quantify fracture critical-crack sizes and crack-arrest temperatures of carbon and low-alloy steel ... -
The Effect of Crack Depth (a) and Crack Depth to Width Ratio (a/W) on the Fracture Toughness of A533-B Steel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)Constraint, as related to specimen crack depth (a ) or crack depth to specimen width ratio (a/W ), can have a significant effect on fracture toughness. In laboratory specimens, both crack ... -
A Summary of NRC Generic Safety Issue 113: Dynamic Qualification and Testing of Large Bore Hydraulic Snubbers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) developed Generic Safety Issue 113, “Dynamic Qualification and Testing of Large Bore Hydraulic Snubbers (LBHSs),” with the objective of evaluating the ... -
Effect of Material Properties on the Strain to Failure of Thick-Walled Cylinders Subjected to Internal Pressure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)The determination of the fully plastic response and pressure limit of a pressure vessel is of considerable importance in design, especially in autofrettage considerations. This paper presents the ... -
Loading and Unloading of Thick-Walled Cylindrical Pressure Vessels of Strain-Hardening Material
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)A thick-walled closed-end cylinder of isotropic, homogeneous and strain-hardening material is considered in this study. Loading is assumed to consist of a temperature gradient as well as an ... -
Random Thermal Stress Oscillations and Fatigue Life Estimation for Steam Generator Tubes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)A one-dimensional computation model was used to determine the temperature and stress fields under conditions corresponding to those found in once-through steam generator tubes. The random oscillatory ... -
Turbulence-Induced Vibration of Tube Arrays in Two-Phase Flow
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An Experimental Study on the Effects of Compressive Stress on the Fatigue Crack Growth of Low-Alloy Steel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)A series of fatigue crack growth rate tests was conducted in order to study the effects of negative stress ratio upon the fatigue crack growth rate of low-alloy steel in air environment. The ... -
Dynamic Behavior of Elastic-Plastic Simply Supported Pipes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)Nonlinear responses of the dynamic behavior of simply supported pipes were analyzed using a nonlinear finite element program. In the first model, a 1 1/2-in. schedule 40 stainless steel pipe ... -
Risk-Based Considerations in Developing Strategies to Ensure Pipeline Integrity—Part II: Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)This is the second in series of two papers generated from a recent study on risk-based analysis for developing strategies to ensure pipeline integrity. This paper (Part II—Applications) focuses ...