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Progress report on the PVRC 3D stress criteria guidelines project

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OSTI ID:136802
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  1. Babcock and Wilcox, Barberton, OH (United States)
This paper summarizes progress on a portion of the Final Report for a Pressure Vessel Research Council (PVRC) Project on Three Dimensional Stress Criteria Guidelines. The paper covers: Area (1) failure mechanism relationship to stress categories, P{sub m}, P{sub L}, P{sub b} and Q; Area (2) determining appropriate stresses for each stress category; Area (3) determining appropriate locations for evaluation of each stress category; Area (4) calculating membrane-plus-bending (linearized) stresses. The example analyses include a two-dimensional axisymmetric cone-cylinder intersection and a three-dimensional nozzle-thick-shell intersection. Tentative guidelines, based on the results for two examples, are provided with respect to each of the four ``areas`` for each geometry.
OSTI ID:
136802
Report Number(s):
CONF-950740--; ISBN 0-7918-1344-4
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English