The use of "fitness for service" assessment procedures to establish allowable flaw sizes in steel cylinders

Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 202-207

  Rana, Mahendra D ^a   Smith, John H ^b  

^a PRAXAIR INC   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANIZATION (ISO); RESIDUAL STRENGTH FACTOR (RSF); SEAMLESS STEEL CYLINDERS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; GAS CYLINDERS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASONIC TESTING; YIELD STRESS;

STEEL STRUCTURES;

CRACKS; CYLINDERS; REGULATIONS; SAFETY; STEEL; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASONIC TESTS;

EID: 11144310024     PISSN: 00949930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1687798     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, 1999, Title 49-Transportation, Part 178, "Specifications for Packaging Subpart C - Specifications for Cylinders," Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.
2. API 579, 2000, "Recommended Practice for Fitness-for-Service," 1st ed., American Petroleum Institute, Washington D.C.
3. ISO/TR 12391-2, 2002, "Gas Cylinders - Refillable Seamless Steel - Performance Tests - Part 2; Fracture performance Test-Monotonic Burst Tests." The International Standards Organization. Geneva, Switzerland.
4. Smith, J. H., Rana, M. D., and Hall, C., 2001. "The Use of "Fitness For Service" Assessment Procedures to Establish Critical Flaw Sizes in High Pressure Gas Cylinders," Pressure Vessel Design and Analysis, PVP-Vol. 430, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, N.Y.
5. Barson, J. H., and Rolfe, S. T., 1999, "Fracture and Fatigue Control in Structures, Application of Fracture Mechanics," Third ed., American Society for Testing and Materials, West Conshohocken, PA, pp. 194.
6. CW3 (CRACKWISE 3), Software program, TWI Ltd, Cambridge, UK
7. BS7910, 1999, "Guide on Methods for Assessing the Acceptability of Flaws in Fusion Welded Structures," BSI, London, UK.