Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology: Recent submissions
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Experimental and Numerical Investigation on Ductile Fracture of Steel Pipelines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Rupture of steel pipelines leads to the loss-of-containment that may be accompanied with loss of life or damage to property and environment. Therefore, the understanding of the fracture characteristics of steel grades used ... -
Modification and Extension of Screening Criteria for Fatigue Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)ASME Code VIII-2-2019 and previous versions provided three screening criteria for fatigue analysis. From edition 2004 to 2019, the design factor for material allowable stress decreased and the considered range of permissible ... -
Study of Various International Codes and Standards for Flanged and Flued Type Expansion Bellows Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Differential longitudinal thermal expansion between the shell and the tube bundle is a well-known problem in fixed tubesheet heat exchanger design. An expansion bellows provide flexibility for thermal expansion and also ... -
Failure Analysis of Inlet Pipeline of a Spray Cooler
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Corrosion perforation occurs frequently in oil field pipelines under strong oxidation environment. The causes for the failure of spray cooler after approximately 87,600 h in service have been investigated. To determine the ... -
Experimental Study on Damping Acoustic Pressure Pulsations in Pipeline Systems Using Helmholtz Resonators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Acoustic pressure pulsations can be problematic in industrial pipelines, especially when the excitation frequency matches an acoustic resonance frequency of the pipeline. The objective of this paper is to investigate the ... -
Development of In-Service Inspection Rules for Liquid-Metal Cooled Reactors Using the System Based Code Concept
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Inservice inspection rules for liquid-metal cooled plants were historically provided by Section XI, Division 3 of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code. However, some parts of the Code, such as acceptance standards for ... -
Strength and Ductility Loss of CPVC Pipe Due to Exposure to Primer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper investigates the influence of primer on mechanical properties and fracture behavior for ring specimens, prepared from the commercial chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC) pipe. After immersing the specimens in ... -
Study on the Expansion Force of TWIP Steel Expandable Tubular in Solid Expandable Tubular Technology
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper focuses on the expansion process of twinning-induced plasticity (TWIP) steel tubular undergoing the large circumferential plastic deformation in expandable tubular technology. The expansion process was performed ... -
A New Formulation for Establishing the Lateral Interaction Between Buried Steel Pipeline and Sandy Soil Subjected to Strike-Slip Faulting
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Buried pipelines are faced with and vulnerable to extreme hazards such as earthquakes, different types of faulting, and landslides. Generally, a buried pipeline is modeled as a beam on a series of springs, which represent ... -
Crack Growth Evaluation for Cracked Stainless and Carbon Steel Pipes Under Large Seismic Cyclic Loading
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Some Japanese nuclear power plants have experienced several large earthquakes beyond the design basis ground motion. In addition, cracks resulting from long-term operation have been detected in piping systems. Therefore, ... -
Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of the Flow Force Exerted on the Disk of a Direct-Operated Pressure Safety Valve in Energy System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The flow force acting on a valve disk plays an important role in the overall performance of pressure safety valves (PSVs). To quantify the disk force, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods have been widely implemented. ... -
Steel–Concrete Composite Pressure Vessels for Hydrogen Storage at High Pressures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The need to store large quantities of hydrogen in large diameter steel vessels under high pressures results in shell thicknesses that are too large to produce by most steel mills and not practical to fabricate. Accordingly, ... -
Closed-Form Stress Intensity Factor Solutions for Surface Cracks With Large Aspect Ratios in Plates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Alloy 82/182/600, which is used in light-water reactors, is known to be susceptible to stress-corrosion cracking. The depth of some of these cracks may exceed the value of half-length on the surface. Although the stress ... -
On Piping Vibration Screening Criteria
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Vibration-related issues are common in the engineering practice. Piping vibrations can range from those barely noticeable to the ones which result in total system failure in a very short time . This paper presents a synthesis ... -
A Coupled Computational Framework for the Transient Heat Transfer in a Circular Pipe Heated Internally With Expanding Heat Sources
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In the present work, a transient heat transfer problem induced by internal combustion of energetic materials was studied. Most of previous studies utilized a lumped-parameter model to predict the parameter distributions ... -
Experimental Analysis of the Lift Force Discontinuity of a Spring-Loaded Pressure Safety Valve Working in Pneumatic Service
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Pressure safety valves (PSVs) are designed to provide ultimate protection for pressure systems. For design or optimization purpose, it is necessary to study the lift force exerted on the valve disk. Under special valve ... -
Impact Analysis of Inline Inspection Accuracy on Pipeline Integrity Planning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Integrity planning methods and inline inspection (ILI) tool performance have a great impact on a pipeline integrity management program. In pipeline integrity planning, risk and integrity assessments are performed to schedule ... -
Damage Localization in Pressure Vessel by Guided Waves Based on Convolution Neural Network Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper investigates the damage localization in a pressure vessel using guided wave-based structural health monitoring (SHM) technology. An online SHM system was developed to automatically select the guided wave propagating ... -
Incefa-Plus Project: Lessons Learned From the Project Data and Impact on Existing Fatigue Assessment Procedures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This work focuses on the analysis of the data generated during the INCEFA+ project (INcreasing safety in nuclear power plants (NPPs) by Covering gaps in Environmental Fatigue Assessment, a five-year project supported by ... -
Hydraulic Burst Test of X52 Pipes With Defects or Nozzle Repair Structure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Hydrostatic blasting test can be used to verify the bearing capacity of the pipeline in service. Spiral weld cracks and dents are common defects of pipes, and nozzle repair is a common repair method of perforated pipes. ...