Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology: Recent submissions
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Erratum: “Refined General Theory of Stress Analysis for Tubesheet” [ASME J. Pressure Vessel Technol., 2017, 139(4), p. 041203; DOI: 10.1115/1.4036139]
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Experimental Investigation on Buckling of Ellipsoidal Head of Steel Nuclear Containment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)A containment of a nuclear power plant is a final barrier against the release of radioactive materials and withstands internal pressure due to an accident. Buckling is a critical failure mode of an ellipsoidal head of steel ... -
Elastic and Plastic Microscopic Undulation on the Surface of Polycrystalline Pure Titanium Under Tension
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Commercial pure titanium has been widely used in the aerospace, chemical, and biomedical industries because of its light weight, high corrosion resistance, high strength, high heat resistance, and good biocompatibility. ... -
Cooling Time (t8/5) Model for Submerged Arc Welded Pressure Vessel Steel Using Dimensional Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Most of the microstructural changes in weldment takes place during weld cooling from 800 ° C to 500 ° C (t8/5) specially in the heat-affected zone (HAZ). Weld strength and cracking tendency can also relate to t8/5. A ... -
Excitation Tests on Elbow Pipe Specimens to Investigate Failure Behavior Under Excessive Seismic Loads
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) resulting from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake raised awareness as to the importance of considering Beyond Design Basis Events (BDBE) when planning for ... -
Pitch and Mass Ratio Effects on Transverse and Streamwise Fluidelastic Instability in Parallel Triangular Tube Arrays
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The simple tube and channel theoretical model for fluidelastic instability (FEI) in tube arrays, as developed by Hassan and Weaver, has been used to study the effects of pitch ratio and mass ratio on the critical velocity ... -
Fatigue-Ratcheting Behavior of 6 in Pressurized Carbon Steel Piping Systems Under Seismic Load: Experiments and Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This article presents the experimental and numerical studies of fatigue-ratcheting in carbon steel piping systems under internal pressure and earthquake load. Shake table tests are carried out on two identical 6 in pressurized ... -
Modeling Liquid Slugs Accelerating in Inclined Conduits
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In this article, we simulate traveling liquid slugs in conduits, as they may occur in systems carrying high-pressure steam. We consider both horizontal and inclined pipes in which the slug is accelerated by a suddenly ... -
Buckling of Cylindrical Steel Tanks With Oblique Body Imperfection Under Uniform External Pressure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Shell structures are built using a number of welded curved panel parts. Hence, some geometrical imperfections emerge. These imperfections have a direct impact on structural behavior of shells during the external compressive ... -
Characterization of Welding-Induced Residual Stress Using Neutron Diffraction Technique
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Pressure vessels comprise critical plant equipment within industrial operations. The fact that the vessel operates under pressure, and may carry toxic, dangerous, or hazardous contents, necessitates that care is taken to ... -
Experimental Study on Failure Mechanism of Casing Under the Synergy of Temperature and Internal Pressure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In recent years, the gas wells with high pressure, high temperature, and high H2S are increasing gradually, but the burst of casing and tubing in these wells will cause the gas channeling and overflow, and the gas with H2S ... -
Using X-Ray Diffraction and Finite Element Method to Analyze Residual Stress of Tube-to-Tubesheet Welded Joints in a Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)A lot of failures have been generated in the tube-to-tubesheet joints of a shell and tube heat exchanger, which are greatly affected by the weld residual stresses. In order to ensure the structure integrity, it is very ... -
A Study About Performance Evaluation Criteria of Tube Banks With Various Shapes and Arrangements Using Numerical Simulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Tube bank heat exchangers are designed to efficiently transfer heat between two fluids. Shapes and arrangements of tubes in heat exchangers have significant effects in heat transfer and pressure drop of fluid. In this ... -
Benchmarking of Improved DPAC Transient Deflagration Analysis Code
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The deflagration pressure analysis code (DPAC) has been upgraded for use in modeling hydrogen deflagration transients. The upgraded code is benchmarked using data from vented hydrogen deflagration tests conducted at the ... -
Functionally Graded Hollow Sphere With Piezoelectric Internal and External Layers Under Asymmetric Transient Thermomechanical Loads
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In this paper, an analytical method is developed to obtain the solution for the two-dimensional (2D) (r,θ) transient thermal and mechanical stresses in a hollow sphere made of functionally graded (FG) material and piezoelectric ... -
Effect of Light Water Reactor Water Environments on the Fatigue Life of Reactor Materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (Code) provides rules for the design of Class 1 components of nuclear power plants. However, the Code design curves do not address the ... -
General Solution for Equation of Transient Heat Conduction in Functionally Graded Material Hollow Cylinder With Piezoelectric Internal and External Layers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In this paper, the exact solution of the equation of transient heat conduction in two dimensions for a hollow cylinder made of functionally graded material (FGM) and piezoelectric layers is developed. Temperature distribution, ... -
Semi-Analytical Approach in Buckling Analysis of Functionally Graded Shells of Revolution Subjected to Displacement Dependent Pressure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Linearized buckling analysis of functionally graded shells of revolution subjected to displacement-dependent pressure, which remains normal to the shell's middle surface throughout the deformation process, is described in ... -
Experimental Study on the Deformation and Failure of the Bellows Structure Beyond the Designed Internal Pressure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Bellows structure is used to absorb the thermal expansion maintaining the boundary of the inside to outside, and it is applied to constitute the containment vessel (CV) boundary of the nuclear power plant. In this study, ... -
Damage Detection Through Pipe Bends
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Axial pipeline defects are detectable from torsional guided wave reflections through 90 deg elbows. This paper demonstrates that detection of localized damage in carbon steel pipes with a so-called standard long and very ...