Fracture Mechanics

[scotland6]

Does anyone have any good liks to sites that deal with flaws / cracks in pressure vessels subject to cyclic pressure loading? Anything that relates to Paris equation and the likes?

Regards

Scotland6

 

[LSThill]

Dr. Ted Anderson of the ASME PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASME/API 579

(WRC Bulletin 441)

http://www.srt-boulder.com/biographies.htm

Fracture Mechanices Fundametals & Applications
Author - T.L. Anderson

CRC Press
Catalog number 4260 BA
December 1994, 704 pp.
ISBN: 0-8493-4260-0

Leonard

 

[LSThill]

http://www.forengineers.org/pvrc/bulletins/471.htm

Development of Stress Intensity Factor Solutions for Surface and Embedded Cracks in API 579

WRC Bulletin 471 -- MAY 2002

Ted L. Anderson
Gregory Thorwald
Daniel J. Revelle
David A. Osage
Jeremy L. Janelle
Matthew E. Fuhry

The Bulletin presents a comprehensive numerical study in which a large number of Mode I stress intensity factor ( ) solutions for cracks in plates and shells were generated for inclusion in the American Petroleum Institute (API) Recommended Practice on Fitness for Service (RP 579). A series of 2D and 3D finite element analyses were performed on plates, cylinders, and spheres containing surface cracks and buried cracks. A wide range of flaw aspect ratios at radius/thickness ratios were considered. The results of these analyses are tabulated.

The Bulletin also describes a weight function methodology in which solutions for arbitrary through-wall stress distributions can be derived for surface cracks in plates and shells. The weight function for a given geometry and crack size is derived from reference solutions for uniform and linear crack-face pressure. The necessary reference solutions for surface cracks in plates, cylinders and spheres are provided.

ISSN: 0043-2326

ISBN: 1-58145-478-3

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 85-647116

Number of Pages: 79

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