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Cycle Testing an Aluminum Pressure Vessel

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Penguineer

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May 31, 2012
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Hello,

We’re performing pressure testing on an aluminum pressure vessel. What you’ll see in the attached image is that we have four samples that are tested as follows:

1) Burst test – Pressure increased until unit bursts
2) High pressure / low cycle
3) Low pressure / high cycle
4) Lowest pressure / highest cycles

From busting the first unit, we recorded a pressure of 245 psi. We estimate that units 3 & 4 will be tested below 50 psi (due to facility limitations). We would like to select a pressure for unit #2 such that it will result in a clearly defined, signature plot for the pressure to number of cycles relationship. However, we’re not certain what pressure to designate for point #2, how should we go about determining this?

Thank you in advance!
 
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Standard hydro test: 1.5 x max allowed operating pressure.

No need to go higher in pressure than that - UNLESS you want to "advertise" the #2 test pressure as "2x MAWP for nn cycles", "3x MAWP for nn cycles" , etc.
 
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