ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Oil and Gas Production Equipment
A Fracture Mechanics Based Failure Analysis of a Cold Service Pressure Vessel
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Published:2019
Abstract
Following a fracture mechanics “fitness-for-purpose” analysis of petroleum industry cold service pressure vessels, using the British Standard PD 6493, it was realized that an analogous approach could be used for the failure analysis of a similar pressure vessel dome which had failed in service some years previously. The failed pressure vessel, with a diam of 2.5 m and several meters tall, had been made of 12 mm thick IZETT steel plate of the same type and heat treatment as used in the earlier fitness-for-purpose already measured. Examination of the fracture surfaces suggested, from fatigue striations manifested by SEM, that...
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Member Sign InR.B. Tait, D.P. Spencer, P.R. Fry, G.G. Garrett, A Fracture Mechanics Based Failure Analysis of a Cold Service Pressure Vessel, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Oil and Gas Production Equipment, ASM International, 2019, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.petrol.c9001137
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