This Abaqus FEA half model of a reactor pressure vessel shows the nozzle opening (shown as holes in Figures 11 and 13) through which cold water is quickly introduced to shut down the reactor, ...

Thorwald, G., and L. Parietti, “Leak-Before-Break Assessment of a Cracked Reactor Vessel Using 3D Crack Meshes,” Proceedings of the ASME 2016 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, PVP2016 ...

CosmosWorks 2007, one FEA program that works inside Solid-Works 2007, comes close to this capability. ... The pressure load always acts normal to the walls of the pressure vessel.

A "catastrophic pressure implosion" killed all five passengers aboard the Titan submersible, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday, somberly solving a mystery that had captivated the public all week ...

Using multidisciplinary simulation, real-time process monitoring to improve composite pressure vessels Multi-pronged approach closes the loop between design and production of Type 3, 4 and 5 pressure ...

WoundSIM is a new software tool targeting the design, simulation and optimization of composite-overwrapped pressure vessels (COPVs). While it is primarily used in the automotive and aerospace ...

TRAVERSE CITY — Diamonds require 725,000 pounds per square inch of pressure and billions of years to form.