... Part D Table 2A. 7 ASME B31.3. 07 06 2010 26 09 2011 16 02 2012 16 02 2012 design engineering metals occupational safety pipes power plants standards thermal stress cracking welding piping fatigue thermal gradients B31.1 design plant life extension...

...Mainul Hasan; Faisal Khan; Shawn Kenny Failure probability of oil and gas pipelines due to external corrosion defects can be estimated using corrosion growth model and the evaluation of remaining strength. Codes/standards have been developed for the assessment of the remaining strength of corroded...

... to provide proprietary benefit to participating companies while also providing public benefit to the industry through the acquisition of a collapse database on modern pipe for use by API and ISO. Collapse test setup Table 2 shows the mean, standard deviation and COV of the actual collapse...

...J. Michael Rotter This paper outlines key aspects of the new European Standard on the Strength and Stability of Metal Shells EN 1993-1-6 with its extended commentary and expansion in the fifth edition of the European Recommendations on Shell Buckling. This European design standard is the first...

... of the pressure tube. CSA Standard N285.8 ( 2005, “Technical Requirements for In-Service Evaluation of Zirconium Alloy Pressure Tubes in CANDU Reactors,” Canadian Standards Association ) has specified deterministic and probabilistic methods for LBB assessment. Although the deterministic method is simple...

.... This paper will briefly review the technology development in the RBDA area and the focus will be on the progresses in the past years in standard development within the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Canadian Standard Association (CSA) organizations. ASME , 2003 , “ ASME B31.8...

... 2008 17 04 2009 fission reactors fracture toughness inspection standards steel In the 1960s and 1970s the surveillance programs for currently operating commercial nuclear reactors were established. The then-current state of knowledge of fracture mechanics required the testing...

... in an international voluntary standards development atmosphere of open discussion. alloy steel carbon steel environmental factors fatigue cracks standards 28 04 2006 15 09 2008 27 01 2009 Figures 5 6 7 8 9 show a compilation of available...

...Hélder F. S. G. Pereira; Abílio M. P. De Jesus; Alfredo S. Ribeiro; António A. Fernandes This paper presents an investigation about the plasticity correction factor, K e , proposed in the Part 3-Clause 18 of the EN13445 standard, for correction of the elastic stress ranges exceeding twice the yield...

...Dieter Siegele; Elisabeth Keim; Gerhard Nagel For the introduction of the new reference temperature RT T 0 of the ASME Code Cases N-629 and N-631 into the German Standard KTA 3201.2, the applicability of RT T 0 was validated by the reevaluation of the existing fracture toughness database of German...

... for Construction of High Pressure Vessels ,” ASME , New York. API RP 941, 2004 Edition, “ Steels for Hydrogen Service at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures in Petroleum Refineries and Petrochemical Plants ,” American Petroleum Institute , Washington, DC. ASTM E399, “ Standard Test Method for Linear...

... to use standards that service the international market. 26 07 2007 14 09 2007 design engineering pressure vessels standards In 1998, the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Committee authorized a project to rewrite Sec. VIII, Division 2 of Pressure Vessel Code. This decision...

... loading conditions (see Fig. 21 ). 09 12 2005 22 11 2006 fasteners flanges hydrostatics maintenance engineering nozzles petrochemicals petroleum industry pipes pressure measurement pressure vessels shells (structures) standards stress analysis welds Weld repairs...

... as to the applicability of the ASME safety standard B30.20 entitled, “Below the Hook Lifting Devices” (1999, ASME, New York) and as to the severe shortcomings of the safety standard in its attempt to delve into the design of lifting devices, especially when applied to lifting lugs on large and heavy-weight pressure...

.... 12 09 2005 08 06 2006 fracture toughness welds pressure vessels standards steel brittle fracture master curve code cases N-629 and N-631 charpy-V shift K IC The ASME K IC (fracture toughness) reference curve was originally drawn as a free hand lower bound...

... ). Duplex stainless steel (DSS) has a mixed structure which consists of ferrite and austenite stainless steels, with austenite between 40% and 60%. The current version of the European standard for unfired pressure vessels EN 13445:2002 contains an innovative design procedure based on Finite Element Analysis...

... Sec. VIII Div 2, weld classification approach in PD 5500, and the surface extrapolation-based hot spot stress approach in recently approved European EN 13445 Standards. In support of the on-going ASME Div 2 Code rewrite efforts, a master S - N curve approach has been proposed by Dong et al...

... 01 2006 pressure vessels tanks (containers) legislation goods distribution standards road safety maintenance engineering Tanks used to haul dangerous goods on the highway, known to ASME as “cargo tanks,” are currently designed based on rules from the Title 49 of the Code...

... applicable, and pressure tests when required. 10 10 2005 21 12 2005 pressure vessels tanks (containers) goods distribution legislation transportation cryogenics inspection standards safety maintenance engineering ASME Section XII transport tanks CFR 49 Section...

...F. Osweiller In the year 2000, ASME Code Section VIII—Div. 1, CODAP (French Code) and EN 13445 (European Standard for Unfired Pressure Vessels) have adopted the same rules for the design of U-tube tubesheet heat exchangers. Three different rules were proposed, based on a different technical basis...