...Xian-Kui Zhu; Bruce Wiersma; William R. Johnson; Robert Sindelar Pressure vessels (PVs) are widely used in the energy industry. Accurate burst pressure is critical to structural design and safe operation for both thin and thick-walled PVs. The traditional strength theories utilized a single...

...) convolution layers to achieve high accuracy damage location on pressure vessels with limited training sets. By further optimizing the network parameters and network structure, the training time is greatly reduced and the accuracy is further improved. The optimized XCM improves the damage location precision...

.... , 1997 , “ Limit Loads of Layered Beams and Layered Cylindrical Shells Using the R-Node Method ,” Proceedings of the ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, PVP-Volume 353, Fatigue and Fracture, Orlando, FL, July 27–31, pp. 201–214 . [2] Mackenzie , D. , and Boyle , J. T...

.... ASME limit load lower bound pressure vessel power law creep 29 08 2021 09 01 2022 16 02 2022 1 Corresponding author. e-mail:  sprasad.email@gmail.com Table 2 Limit load estimates using BEMMT in beam bending Limit load estimates using BEMMT in beam bending...

... pressure vessels (COPVs). In the analysis, the vessels were loaded with increasing internal pressure up to the burst pressure level. In the analytical part of the study, the burst pressure of the cylindrical part was predicted based on the modified von Mises, Tresca, and average shear stress criterion...

...N. Baghous; I. Barsoum Pressure vessels and their components are commonly designed with the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Codes. One of the requirements when pursuing the design by analysis route is to design these equipment against ductile local failure criterion provided in the codes. However...

...Chaojie Hu; Bin Yang; Jianjun Yan; Yanxun Xiang; Shaoping Zhou; Fu-Zhen Xuan 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...

...Abolfazl Zolfaghari; Moein Izadi Pressure vessel plays an important role in wide range of applications to store gas or liquid substances. In order to design a pressure vessel safely, one of the main factors which has to be considered is selection of proper burst pressure perdition criterion. Due...

... prediction is difficult on damaged vessel due to interaction of many metallurgical variables such as dislocation climb, diffusion creep, activation energy, and material heterogeneity. The pressure vessel and piping inspection in refinery equipment should be conducted depending upon the severity...

...Jingyi Tian; Huihua Feng; Ye Yang; Junming Liang; Yuxiao Kuang; Huiyong Zhang In this paper, an effective numerical model is established by combining the fluid–structure coupling and thermomechanical coupling methods to solve complex sealing problems of a reactor pressure vessel (RPV) test...

...Shijun Wu; Keren Xie; Canjun Yang; Dejun Li 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 provided a 360 deg view...

... by the Pressure Vessel and Piping Division of ASME for publication in the J OURNAL OF P RESSURE V ESSEL T ECHNOLOGY . Manuscript received May 6, 2012; final manuscript received April 13, 2014; published online September 4, 2014. Assoc. Editor: Pierre Mertiny. 06 05 2012 13 04 2014 Based...

...Wuyi Wan; Wenrui Huang; Cong Li A water hammer is usually considered as a potential risk for a water supply pipeline system, since overpressure and negative pressure can distort and fracture pipes during a pressure surge. Water hammer analysis is an important procedure to improve pressure vessel...

...Wuyi Wan; Wenrui Huang 1 Corresponding author. Contributed by the Pressure Vessel and Piping Division of ASME for publication in the J ournal of P ressure V essel T echnology . Manuscript received September 23, 2012; final manuscript received February 10, 2013; published online October 7...

...Yashar Javadi; Hamed Salimi Pirzaman; Mohammadreza Hadizadeh Raeisi; Mehdi Ahmadi Najafabadi 1 Corresponding author. Contributed by the Pressure Vessel and Piping Division of ASME for publication in the J ournal of P ressure V essel T echnology . Manuscript received September 14, 2012...

...V. N. Skopinsky; N. A. Berkov References [1] ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code , Sec. VIII, 2004 ed., American Society of Mechanical Engineering , New York . [2] PD 5500:2006, Specification for Unfired Fusion Welded Pressure Vessels , British Standards Institution , London...

... the tabulated results in ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section VIII, Division 3, to calculate the SIF for internal semi-elliptical cracks in cylinders subjected to internal pressure. These equations can be used to avoid the use of the tabulated solutions, and, as a consequence, an automatic numerical...

...P. Zhang; R. Du Pressure vessel is widely used in many engineering areas. How to achieve a perfect combination of excellent performance and low cost in the design and manufacturing of a pressure vessel is, therefore, very important. Instead of a single cylinder, a multicell pressure vessel...

...Bingjun Gao; Xiaohui Chen; Xiaoping Shi; Junhua Dong An important issue in engineering application of the “design by analysis” approach in pressure vessel design is how to decompose an overall stress field obtained by finite element analysis into different stress categories defined in the ASME B...

...Z. Abdulaliyev; S. Ataoglu; O. Bulut; E. S. Kayali Internal surfaces of pressure vessels used in many industrial sectors are subjected to corrosive effects leading to cavities. In this study, corrosive cavities on investigated pressure vessels are classified according to their shapes and dimensions...