Failure cause analysis—a structural approach

Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 434-440

  Gandhi, O P ^a   Agrawal, V P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; GRAPH THEORY; MACHINE COMPONENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE VESSELS; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WELDING;

DIGRAPH; FAILURE CAUSALITY; FAILURE CAUSE ANALYSIS; FAILURE CAUSE FUNCTION; FAILURE CAUSE INDEX; WELD DEFECTS; WELD QUALITY;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030287601     PISSN: 00949930     EISSN: 15288978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2842210     Document Type: Article

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