Fracture assessment procedures for steel pipelines using a modified reference stress solution

Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Tkaczyk, Tomasz ^a   O'Dowd, Noel P ^b   Nikbin, Kamran ^c  

^a TECHNIP   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED STRAIN; CRACK DRIVING FORCE; DEFECT ASSESSMENT; ELASTIC-PLASTIC; ESTIMATION SCHEMES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRACTURE ASSESSMENT; FULL-SCALE TESTING; INTEGRAL PART; REFERENCE STRESS; STEEL PIPELINE; SURFACE BREAKING DEFECTS; WELDED STEELS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLASTIC PIPE; STEEL PIPE; SURFACE DEFECTS;

PIPELINES;

EID: 77954212477     PISSN: 00949930     EISSN: 15288978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3122769     Document Type: Article

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