Thermal shock cracking: Design and assessment guidelines

Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 125-132

  Price, John W H ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arrest; Cracking; Design; Fitness for purpose; Growth; Initiation; Thermal shock

Indexed keywords

BOILERS; PRESSURE VESSEL CODES; STEAM; THERMAL SHOCK; THERMAL STRESS; WATER;

PRESSURE EQUIPMENTS; STATE LOADS; THERMAL SHOCK CRACKING;

CRACK INITIATION;

EID: 34248225445     PISSN: 00949930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2389029     Document Type: Article

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