Some issues in life assessment of longitudinal seam welds based on creep tests with cross-weld specimens

International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping

Volumn 66, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 199-222

  Segle, P ^a,b   Tu, S T ^c   Storesund, J ^d   Samuelson, L A ^a,b  

^a Swedish Plant Inspection Ltd   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SWEREA KIMAB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Creep; Creep damage; Creep hard; Creep soft; Cross weld; Life assessment; Mis match; Seam weld; Size effect; Weld

Indexed keywords

CREEP; CREEP TESTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIPE; SERVICE LIFE;

CROSS WELD SPECIMENS; LIFE ASSESSMENT; LONGITUDINAL SEAM WELDS; MULTIPLE MATERIAL ZONES;

WELDS;

EID: 0029732091     PISSN: 03080161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0308-0161(95)00096-8     Document Type: Article

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