Stress analysis and determination of bolt preload in pipe flange connections with gaskets under internal pressure

Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 385-396

  Sawa, Toshiyuki ^a   Ogata, Naofumi ^a   Nishida, Takahito ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b Nippon Valqua Industries Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axisymmetric Theory of Elasticity; Contact Stress; FEM; Gasket Hysteresis; Gasket Nonlinearity; Leakage Test; Load Factor; New Gasket Constants; Pipe Flange; Stress Analysis; Tightness Parameter

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GASKETS; HYSTERESIS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

PIPE FLANGE CONNECTIONS;

FLANGES;

EID: 0036860062     PISSN: 00949930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1511736     Document Type: Article

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