RECENT ADVANCES IN DESIGN AND USAGE OF PRESSURE VESSELS AND PIPING COMPONENTS -- MECHANICAL ENGINEERING THEORY AND APPLICATIONS -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- GLOBAL APPROACH VERSUS LOCAL APPROACHFOR CLEAVAGE CRACK ARREST -- ABSTRACT -- NOMENCLATURE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MATERIAL AND EXPERIMENTS -- 2.1. Material -- 2.2. Thermal Shock Experiment on Precracked Disc -- 2.3. Experimental Results -- 2.3.1. Mechanical Results -- 2.3.2. Fractographic Results -- 3. GLOBAL APPROACH TO FRACTURE -- 3.1. Numerical Procedures -- 3.1.1. Geometry and Boundary Conditions -- 3.1.2. Thermo-Mechanical Behavior -- 3.1.3. Crack Speed Criterion -- 3.2. Numerical Results -- 3.2.1. Static Analyses -- 3.2.2. Dynamic Analyses -- 4. LOCAL APPROACH TO CRACK ARREST -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Critical Stress Criterion -- 4.2.1. Definition -- 4.2.2. Numerical Implementation -- 4.2.3. Identification of the Critical Stress -- 4.3. Results of 2D-Modeling -- 4.3.1. Simulation of the Data Base -- 4.3.2. Parametric Study -- 4.4. 3D-Modeling -- 4.4.1. Mesh and Boundary Conditions -- 4.4.2. Crack Front Shape Prediction -- 5. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ON THE PHENOMENON OF DELAYED HYDRIDE CRACKING IN ZIRCALOY PRESSURE TUBESUSED IN NUCLEAR INDUSTRY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE DHC PHENOMENON -- 3. MODELS OF DHC -- 4. HYSTERESIS IN THE SOLUBILITY OF HYDROGENIN ZIRCONIUM -- 5. SOLUBILITY HYSTERESIS AND DHC TESTING -- 6. CONDITIONS FOR CRACK TIP HYDRIDE FRACTURE -- 7. EFFECT OF IRRADIATION ON DHC BEHAVIOR -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- APPLICATION OF GLASS PRESSURE VESSELIN THE FORMULATION OF STRATEGIC PRODUCTS AND INVESTIGATION OF SOME UNDER-PRESSURE REACTIONS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. STICKY FOAMS -- 2. AEROSOLIZATION OF MEDETOMIDINEHYDROCHLORIDE AS A ANESTHETIC.

3. ACTIVATED HYDROGEN PEROXIDE FOAMFOR DECONTAMINATION OF CHEMICALWARFARE AGENT STIMULANT -- 4. FORMULATION OF LIQUID EXPLOSIVE FOAMBASED ON NITROMETHANE -- 5. UNDER-PRESSURE REACTION OF TRICHLOROACETYLCHLORIDE AND ACRYLONITRILE IN THE PREPARATIONOF 3,5,6-TRICHLORO-2-PYRIDINOL -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PRESSURE VESSELS DESIGN USING FEM SOFTWARES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ZERO FAILURE METHOD -- 3. THE METHODOLOGY OF DESIGNING USINGFEM SOFTWARES -- 3.1. Preprocessor -- 3.2. Processor -- 3.3. Post Processor -- 4. ITERATIVE DESIGN PROCEDURE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- A MULTIFACTORIAL APPROACH TO THE BLOOD PRESSURE CONTROL.THE ROLE OF THE ASYMMETRICALORGANIZATION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BRAIN ASYMMETRY AND CARDIOVASCULAR CONTROL -- 3. ROLE OF NITRIC OXIDE IN BLOOD PRESSURE CONTROL. INTERACTION WITH THE RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM -- 4. ROLE OF DOPAMINE IN BLOOD PRESSURE CONTROL. INTERACTION WITH THE RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM -- 5. NEW INSIGHTS ON THE ROLE OF THE ASYMMETRICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN THE CONTROLOF BLOOD PRESSURE -- 5.1. Asymmetrical Responses in Plasma and Blood Pressure after Unilateral Brain Lesions with 6-Hydroxydopamine -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- A PRACTICAL FEA CRACK GROWTHIN THE IRRADIATION DAMAGED PRESSURE VESSELS (TUBES) BY USING A MATERIAL MODEL OF GURSON TYPE AS A CONSTITUTIVE MATERIAL LAW -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE USE OF QUANTUM MECHANICS PROGRAMGAMESS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF HYDROGENABSORPTION IN ZIRCONIUM -- 3. NUCLEATION MICRO-VOIDS IN IRRADIATED ZIRCALLOY -- 4. PLASTICITY ALGORITHMS -- Plasticity Rate Equations -- Internal State Variables -- Plastic Strain in the Matrix -- Evolution of Void Fraction -- Response of the Matrix Material -- Summary of Updating Process -- Examples -- Basic Constitutive Equation of Gurson Material.

Element Extinction -- Material Model Type: Mises_Hydrogen -- Model Output -- Crack Growth by Element Extinction (Element Death) -- Damage Criteria for Gurson-Tvergaard Model(GT) -- General Input Commands (See ANEXES: A,B) -- Damage Criteria Commands -- Results and Discussions -- ANNEXURE A -- Mesh_Plot_Windows Program Used to Generate the Input File of WARP3D -- The Result is the WARP3D Input File -- cylpT -- Structure Cylpt -- Output Processing -- ANNEX B -- WARP3D-Run Results -- REFERENCES -- ASPECTS OF STRUCTURAL INTEGRITYASSESSMENT OF PRESSURE VESSELSAND PIPING COMPONENTS IN THE DUCTILEFRACTURE REGIME -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MICRO-VOID DAMAGE MODEL FOR DUCTILE FRACTURE -- 3. RICE AND TRACEY'S MODEL (UN-COUPLED MODELFOR DUCTILE DAMAGE) -- 4. MODIFICATION OF RICE AND TRACEY'S PARAMETER -- 5. FE SIMULATION OF RESPONSE VARIOUS TYPESOF GEOMETRIES USING COUPLED DAMAGE MODELS -- 6. DISADVANTAGE OF LOCAL DAMAGE MECHANICS MODELS -- 7. DEVELOPMENT OF A NONLOCAL FORMOF THE ROUSSELIER'S DAMAGE MODEL -- 8. FINITE ELEMENT FORMULATION OF THE NONLOCAL ROUSSELIER'S DAMAGE MODEL -- 9. FE SIMULATION OF RESPONSE OF VARIOUS TYPESOF SPECIMENS AND COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENTAL DATA -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- PREDICTIVE MODELS FOR SIMULATIONOF STATISTICAL ASPECTS OF FRACTUREBEHAVIOUR OF PRESSURE VESSELS AND PIPING COMPONENTS IN THE DUCTILE-TO-BRITTLE TRANSITION REGIME AND THEIREXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. NONLOCAL DAMAGE MODEL FOR PREDICTIONOF DUCTILE FRACTURE -- 3. BEREMIN'S MODEL FOR CLEAVAGE FRACTURE -- 4. ANALYSIS OF A COMPACT TENSION SPECIMENIN THE UPPER SHELF REGION -- 5. ANALYSIS OF A COMPACT TENSION SPECIMENIN THE DBT REGION -- 6. ANALYSIS OF A SINGLE EDGED NOTCHED BEND(SEB) SPECIMEN IN THE DBT REGION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

LIFE ESTIMATION OF PRESSURE VESSELSAND PIPING COMPONENTS OPERATINGIN THE CREEP REGIME DUE TO SUSTAINEDAS WELL AS FLUCTUATING LOADINGCONDITIONS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BARC ON-LINE STRUCTURAL SAFETY EVALUATIONSYSTEM (BOSSES) -- 2.1. Description of Various Modules of BOSSES -- 3. THERMAL POWER PLANTS AND THE HOT-REHEATPIPE BEND -- 4. DETERMINATION OF PIPING LOADS ON HOTREHEAT PIPE BEND -- 5. A THREE-DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT MODEL OF HOT REHEAT PIPE-BEND AND DAMAGE CALCULATION -- 6. REMAINING LIFE ASSESSMENT OF HOT REHEAT PIPE-BEND -- 7. REMAINING LIFE ASSESSMENT OF SUPER-HEATERAND RE-HEATER OUTLET HEADERS -- 8. METALLURGICAL INVESTIGATION AT THE SHELL-NOZZLE JUNCTION OF THE SUPER-HEATER OUTLET HEADER -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.