Significance of fracture toughness test results of beam welds in evaluation of brittle fracture performance of girth welded pipe joints

Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 609-618

  Ohata, Mitsuru ^a   Toyoda, Masao ^a   Ishikawa, Nobuyuki ^b   Shinmiya, Toyohisa ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JFE STEEL CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beam welds; Charpy impact testing; FPD (fracture path deviation); Fracture performance; Fracture toughness; Linepipe; Plastic constraint; Three point bend testing; Toughness transition curve; Weibull stress

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; ELECTRON BEAM WELDING; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; LASER BEAM WELDING; PIPE JOINTS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

BEAM WELDS; CHARPY IMPACT TESTING; FRACTURE PATH DEVIATION (FPD); FRACTURE PERFORMANCE; LINEPIPES; PLASTIC CONSTRAINTS; THREE-POINT BEND TESTING; TOUGHNESS TRANSITION CURVE; WEIBULL STRESS;

WELDS;

EID: 36348978893     PISSN: 00949930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2767652     Document Type: Article

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