Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology: Recent submissions
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Quantitative Assessment of Damage in Buried Polyethylene Pipe Subjected to Land Subsidence
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Traditional investigation of polyethylene pipe (PE) subjected to external loads focused only on the study of mechanical behavior or the failure judgment, but could not predict the damage evolution process. In this paper, ... -
High-Fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling and Analysis of a Pressure Vessel-Pipe-Safety Valve System in Gas Service
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A pressurized vessel-pipe-safety valve (PVPSV) system is a common configuration for many energy management systems, and a better understanding of their dynamics is helpful for system design and optimization. In this paper, ... -
Pressurization Analysis for Heating of a Screw Top Utility Can Loaded With Plutonium Oxide Powder by a 1273 K Fire
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The documented safety analysis for the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) evaluates the consequences of a postulated 1273 K fire in a glovebox. The radiological dose consequences for a pressurized release of plutonium ... -
Influence of Mean Strain on Fatigue Life of Stainless Steel in Pressurized Water Reactor Water Environment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The Influence of application of the mean strain on the fatigue life was investigated for Type 316 stainless steel in the simulated pressurized water reactor (PWR) primary water environment. Low-cycle fatigue tests were ... -
The Effects of Operational, Testing, and Material Characterizations on the Change in Yield Strength From Plate to Pipe
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The rapid growth of energy consumption has increased the demand of pipelines for the transportation of oil and gas. UOE is one common technique for manufacturing pipes, and its pipe products are evaluated by tensile tests ... -
A Comprehensive Study on Burst Pressure Performance of Aluminum Liner for Hydrogen Storage Vessels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper presents a comparative study on the burst pressure performance of aluminum (Al) liner for type-III composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPVs). In the analysis, the vessels were loaded with increasing internal ... -
An Improved Creep-Fatigue Life Model Involving the Cyclic Softening/Hardening and Stress Relaxation Effect
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In this work, improved creep-fatigue life prediction models based on time fraction (TF) and ductility exhaustion (DE) rule are established for creep-fatigue life prediction of components at elevated temperatures. Cyclic ... -
Verification of Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics Analysis Code for Reactor Pressure Vessel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Nowadays, it has been recognized that probabilistic fracture mechanics (PFM) is a promising methodology in structural integrity assessments of aged pressure boundary components of nuclear power plants, because it can ... -
Flow-Induced Acoustic Resonance of Finned Cylinders With Varying Fin Heights
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The flow-excited acoustic resonance phenomenon, which is instigated by periodic flow perturbation, leads to the generation of acute sound pressure. In this work, we investigated the characteristics of the flow-excited ... -
Study on the Four-Quadrant Homologous Characteristic and Two-Phase Flow Head Degradation of a Reactor Coolant Pump
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper studies the four-quadrant homologous characteristic and analyzes the gas–liquid two-phase flow head degradation of ACP100 reactor coolant pump. The theoretical basis and the operating conditions of the pump's ... -
Dynamic Instability Analysis of a Spring-Loaded Pressure Safety Valve Connected to a Pipe by Using Computational Fluid Dynamics Methods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)As the ultimate protection of a pressure system, pressure safety valves (PSV) can respond in an unstable manner in the form of flutter and chatter, which will affect service life, reliability, and performance. In order to ... -
Experimental and Numerical Study of Air Vessel in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Transient Flow Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)An air vessel is a simple and effective device for protecting a pipeline system from abnormal pressure events. In order to design and select a suitable air vessel, analysis of the pipeline system is necessary. A quasi-2D ... -
Assessment and Performance Evaluation of Water Hammer in Hydroelectric Plants With Hydropneumatic Tank and Pressure Regulating Valve
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The simulation approach of pipeline systems, pressure regulating valve (PRV), and hydropneumatic tank (HPT) in hydropower plants (HPP) is performed. The article used suitable protection devices such as hydropneumatic tank ... -
Analytical Solution of Aluminum Alloy Plates With Holes Subjected to Cold Expansion With Reverse Yielding
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The expansion induced by cold working is a common process that generates residual stresses. It is used when fatigue damage accumulation and life reduction of aluminum alloy perforated plates is an issue in the aeronautics ... -
Numerical Analysis of Temperature Fields and Thermal Stress Fields in Heating Process of Large-Diameter Seamless Steel Pipe Blanks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In the piercing process of large-diameter seamless steel pipe blanks after heating, severe lateral cracks easily occur on the surface of pierced pipe blanks owing to the effects of the large temperature difference and ... -
A Simplified Analytical Model for Estimation of the Initial Waterhammer Pressure and Force on a Circular Tube
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)A simplified analytical model is developed for estimating the initial waterhammer pressure and force on a circular tube when a plane decompression wave, parallel to its axis, passes over it. The simplified analysis ... -
Mechanical Damage and Response of a Buried Steel Pipeline Under Subsurface Explosion Load
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Subsurface explosions seriously threaten the safety and reliability of buried oil and gas pipeline. In order to investigate the mechanical responses of buried steel pipeline under subsurface explosion load, a numerical ... -
Estimation of Hydraulic Gradient for a Transport Pipeline
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This work deals with the hydraulic gradient estimation in real-time of a transport pipeline computational model by considering a slightly compressible fluid and slightly deformable conduit walls. Since the hydraulic gradient ... -
Effect of Coolant Water Temperature of Emergency Core Cooling System on Failure Probability of Reactor Pressure Vessel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Structural integrity assessment of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) is important for the safe operation of nuclear power plant. For an RPV in a pressurized water reactor (PWR), pressurized thermal shock (PTS) resulted from ... -
Study on Radial Clearance Sealing Performance of Graphite Ring
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Firstly, the suitable forming method of graphite ring was screened according to compression deformation test, considering the characteristics of radial clearance seal. Then, the compression resilience, radial contact stress ...