Pressure Systems Casebook

Causes and Avoidance of Failures and Defects

John Wintle

160 pages, parution le 31/05/2004

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Résumé

Pressure systems contain stored energy and the threat of damaging failure is ever present. Failures of pressure systems still occur and are costly to those affected; yet the main causes, consequences, and methods of investigation are not widely known. Pre-existing defects are a major cause of failures and near-failures in pressure systems, yet many can be avoided by greater awareness of the circumstances in which they arise.

Pressure Systems Casebook contains a collection of papers drawn from two IMechE seminars that will be of particular interest to students and engineers who want to broaden their knowledge and learn from experience and history.

The authors' backgrounds cover a range of perspectives, from representing industrial users of pressure systems to regulators, research, and engineering consultants.

L'auteur - John Wintle

John Wintle CEng,MIMechE is a consultant engineer in the field of structural integrity. His expertise covers fitness-for-service, reliability, risk-based inspection and life assessment of industrial plant and components, mainly pressure equipment and structures used in power, oil and gas and process industries. He has a particular interest in the management of ageing plant and in failure investigations.

His career includes technical and managerial roles at Rolls-Royce, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and AEA Technology, and he is now at TWI, The Welding Institute. As a Committee Member of the Pressure Systems Group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, John Wintle is a regularly presenter and organiser of seminars. He is well known in the field of structural integrity through many publications and conference papers.

Sommaire

Lessons from failures of gas cylinders used for dispensing beverages
Experience from Health and Safety laboratory investigations
Insurance aspects of pressure systems failures
Failure investigation for commercial purposes - system failures leading to the collapse of storage vessels under partial vacuum
Reliable technical failure investigation
Failure design procedures in the new European Pressure Vessel Standard EN 13445
Causes of vibration fatigue in process pipework - a new methodology to assess the risk
Avoiding vibration-induced fatigue failures in process pipework
Lessons learned from pressure system failures

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Professional Engineering Publishing
Auteur(s)	John Wintle
Parution	31/05/2004
Nb. de pages	160
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	475g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781860584213
ISBN13	978-1-86058-421-3