Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology: Recent submissions
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A Unified Analytical Method of Stress Analysis for Tubesheet—Part II: Case Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Based on the unified analytical method of stress analysis for fixed tubesheet (TS) heat exchangers (HEX), floating head and U-tube HEX presented in Part I, numerical comparisons with ASME method are performed in this paper ... -
Optimal Design and Experimental Research of the Anti-Cavitation Structure in the Water Hydraulic Relief Valve
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Water hydraulics relief valves are essential components of hydraulic systems. These valves maintain the desired pressure and thereby prevent other components from being damaged. During operation of the relief valve, the ... -
An Integration Method for Assessing the Operational Reliability of Underground Gas Storage in a Depleted Reservoir
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Underground gas storage (UGS), a key component of a natural gas pipeline network, can not only be used as an emergency gas source under a pipeline system failure situation but it is also available for seasonal peak shaving ... -
An Integrated Prognostics Approach for Pipeline Fatigue Crack Growth Prediction Utilizing Inline Inspection Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Fatigue cracking is a key type of defect for liquid pipelines, and managing fatigue cracks has been a top priority and a big challenge for liquid pipeline operators. The existing inline inspection (ILI) tools for pipeline ... -
A Novel Visual Apparatus for Laboratory Simulation of Seafloor Hydrothermal Venting
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)In this paper, a novel visual experimental apparatus for simulating seafloor hydrothermal venting is proposed. The instrument consists mainly of an acrylic pressure vessel and a hydrothermal fluid syringe pump, which ... -
Study on the Compression-Resilience and Sealing Performance of New Metal-to-Metal Contact Gasket
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The compression-resilience performance of new metal-to-metal contact (MMC) gasket at different temperatures was studied by compression-resilience test, and the influences on sealing performance of gasket caused by internal ... -
A Lifetime Prediction Method of Pressured Gas Polyethylene Pipes by Thermal-Oxidative Aging Test and Tensile Test
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Polyethylene (PE) pipes have the advantages of low weight, corrosion resistance, high impact resistance, and superior flexibility, and have been widely used for various urban gas engineering. With the increase of service ... -
Creep-Fatigue Behaviors and Life Assessments in Two Nickel-Based Superalloys
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The aim of this paper is to investigate different factors, including dwell time, strain range, and strain ratio on creep-fatigue endurances in nickel-based Inconel 718 and GH4169 superalloys. We also summarize classic ... -
Experiment Study on Fluidelastic Instability of Tube Bundles Consisting of Different Frequency Tubes With Visual Image Processing System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Fluidelastic instability (FEI) is the most harmful vibration mechanism for heat exchangers. Due to the inevitable manufacturing precision and assembly error, natural frequencies of tubes are not equal in the ideal condition. ... -
Evaluation of Magnetostrictive Transducers for Guided Wave Monitoring of Pressurized Pipe at 200 °C
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Many piping networks in processing plants, such as refineries, chemical plants, and electric power generation plants, are operated at elevated temperatures (≥250 °F or 121 °C). Failure of these insulated high temperature ... -
Pipeline Valves Technology, Material Selection, Welding, and Stress Analysis (A Case Study of a 30 in Class 1500 Pipeline Ball Valve)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Pipeline valves are the largest, heaviest, and most important valves on an offshore platform with long delivery time. A pipeline valve is either a ball type or through conduit gate valve type with a top entry design. The ... -
Stability of Open-Topped Storage Tanks With Top Stiffener and One Intermediate Stiffener Subject to Wind Loading
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Aboveground vertical steel storage tanks use stiffener rings to prevent their shell wall from buckling under wind loading. The existing stiffener rings design rules from API 650 standard is known to be overly conservative. ... -
Fatigue Measurement of Pipeline Steels for the Application of Transporting Gaseous Hydrogen1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)A comprehensive testing program to determine the fatigue crack growth rate (FCGR) of pipeline steels in pressurized hydrogen gas was completed. Four steels were selected, two X52 and two X70 alloys. Other variables included ... -
Inverse Fracture in DWTT and Brittle Crack Behavior in Large-Scale Brittle Crack Arrest Test
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The drop weight tear test (DWTT) has been widely used to evaluate the resistance of linepipe steels against brittle fracture propagation. Although there is an ambiguity in the evaluation of DWTT results if inverse fracture ... -
Large Eddy Simulation of Fluid-Elastic Instability in Square Normal Cylinder Array
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Large eddy simulations (LES) are performed at low Reynolds number (2000–6000) to investigate the dynamic fluid-elastic instability in square normal cylinder array for a single-phase fluid cross flow. The fluid-elastic ... -
A Review of Theoretical and Experimental Research on Various Autofrettage Processes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Autofrettage is a metal forming technique widely incorporated for strengthening the thick-walled cylindrical and spherical pressure vessels. The technique is based on the principle of initially subjecting the cylindrical ... -
An Investigation of the Structural Integrity of a Reactor Pressure Vessel Using Three-Dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics and Finite Element Method Based Probabilistic Pressurized Thermal Shock Analysis for Optimizing Maintenance Strategy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)The structural integrity of a reactor pressure vessel (RPV) is important for the safety of a nuclear power plant. When the emergency core cooling system (ECCS) is operated and the coolant water is injected into the RPV due ... -
Short-Term Mechanical Analysis of Polyethylene Pipe Reinforced by Winding Steel Wires Using Steel Wire Spiral Structural Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)Polyethylene pipe reinforced by winding steel wires (PSP) is a new type of polymer–matrix composite pipe that is widely used in petroleum, chemical engineering, and water supply, etc. PSP is composed of a high-density ... -
Influence of Internal Corrosive Defect on the Burn-Through of In-Service Welding on Pipelines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)In the course of the service of long-distance oil/gas pipelines, due to corrosion, abrasion, and other reasons, the possibility of pipeline leakage is growing. In-service welding is an advanced technique employed in the ... -
Experimental and Numerical Studies on Inelastic Dynamic Behavior of Stainless Steel Elbow Under Harmonic Base Excitation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018)In the present work, inelastic dynamic behavior of a pressurized stainless steel elbow is studied under harmonic base excitation with the emphasis on strain accumulation known as ratcheting. Initially, sine sweep test is ...