High Pressure Vessels

Preface. Nomenclature. Introduction. General. Economic considerations and cost reduction. Stress significance. Factors of safety and their optimum value. Stresses and deformation: Thin wall vessels. Thick wall vessels. Cylinders, spheres, and other shapes. Stresses and deflections. Shrink fit stresses in built-up cylinders. Other structural types. Effect of poisson's ratio. Partial yielding. Autofrettage and Bauschinger effect. Thermal stresses due to temperature transients. Theories of material failure. Materials and environment. Ductile tensile test, strain hardening exponent, etc.. True and engineering strain. Stress/failure theories: tresca, von Mises, etc. Cyclic service influence. Endurance limit phylosophy. ASME code type fatigue curves. Problems with fatigue analysis. Toughness, quantifying it, and temperature influence. Material quality and crack initiation. Crack growth versus stress. Critical crack size and crack arrest. Environmental effects. Cumulative damage. Specific design and construction. Features of high pressure vessels. Openings and cross bores. Attachment and connection techniques. Closures: threaded and non-threaded. Stress concentration effects. Sealing techniques. Hazards and safety. General. Calculating estimated confined energy. Barrier sizing. An alternative. Basis for establishing examination period. Creating and examination program. Evaluation and record keeping. Analysis techniques: features and limitations. Traditional manual methods. Finite element studies. Iterative concepts. SI conversions. References. Index.