• Title of article

    Reliability-basedloadandresistancefactordesignforpiping:anexploratorycasestudyOriginalResearchArticle

  • Author/Authors

    AbhinavGupta، نويسنده , , ByounghoanChoi، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2003
  • Pages
    18
  • From page
    161
  • To page
    178
  • Abstract
    ThispaperpresentsanexploratorycasestudyontheapplicationofLoadandResistanceFactorDesign(LRFD)approachtotheSectionIIIofASMEBoilerandPressureVesselcodeforpipingdesign.Thefailurecriterionfordefiningtheperformancefunctionisconsideredasplasticinstability.Presentlyuseddesignequationiscalibratedbyevaluatingtheminimumreliabilitylevelsassociatedwithit.IfthetargetreliabilityintheLRFDapproachissameasthatevaluatedforthepresentlyuseddesignequation,itisshownthatthetotalsafetyfactorsforthetwodesignequationsareidentical.Itisobservedthattheloadandresistancefactorsarenotdependentuponthediametertothicknessratio.Asensitivityanalysisisalsoconductedtostudythevariationsintheloadandresistancefactorsduetochangesin(a)coefficientsofvariationforpressure,moment,andultimatestress,(b)ratioofmeandesignpressuretomeandesignmoment,(c)distributiontypesusedforcharacterizingtherandomvariables,and(d)statisticalcorrelationbetweenrandomvariables.Itisobservedthatcharacterizationofrandomvariablesbylog-normaldistributionisreasonable.Considerationofstatisticalcorrelationbetweentheultimatestressandsectionmodulusgiveshighervaluesoftheloadfactorforpressurebutlowervalueforthemomentthanthecorrespondingvaluesobtainedbyconsideringthevariablestobeuncorrelated.Sincetheeffectofstatisticalcorrelationontheloadandresistancefactorsisrelativelyinsignificantfortargetreliabilityvaluesofpracticalinterest,theeffectofcorrelatedvariablesmaybeneglected.
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Serial Year
    2003
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Record number

    894579