Re: China Hydrotest Failure

Dear colleauges

Can you please post the link to the ruptured vessel

Thanks

Khaled Mahmoud
Aramco
Jeddah Refinery
--- Christopher Wright <chrisw@skypoint.com> wrote:

>
> On Jan 11, 2008, at 7:29 PM, Paul Bowers wrote:
>
> > <<Apparently this pressure vessel had reached
> fifty percent of the
> > required test pressure when the shell
> > ruptured.
> I've seen a few of these. The fracture is typical of
> low toughness
> steel and the low burst pressure (a stress level
> of about 20% of
> the UTS) means that the cause of the failure was a
> good-sized crack
> somewhere--probably in a weld. where'd you get the
> pictures?
>
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> of Gen.
> .......................................| John
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> 1864)
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Received on Tue Jan 15 03:40:00 2008