Residual Stress Measurements in Vintage LPG Pressure Vessel Welds, via Neutron Diffraction

Residual Stress Measurements in Vintage LPG Pressure Vessel Welds, via Neutron Diffraction

K. Sozen, A. Paradowska, M. Reid, R. Griffins, J. Daniels

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Abstract. Systems in power, petrochemical and refinery plants are subject to innumerable degradation mechanisms. Welds are the critical regions in such components. The focus of this project is on Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) storage vessels manufactured for Australian refineries in the 1960s. Residual stresses were measured in seam and circumferential welds extracted from the vessels. The aim of this project is to measure the residual stress storage vessel. This data will be used to engineer a procedure to repair the vintage steel plates of the pressure vessels with modern consumables and welding techniques.

Keywords
Welding, Residual Stress, Neutron Diffraction, Pressure Vessel, Submerged Arc, Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG)

Published online 12/22/2016, 6 pages
Copyright © 2016 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA

Citation: K. Sozen, A. Paradowska, M. Reid, R. Griffins, J. Daniels, ‘Residual Stress Measurements in Vintage LPG Pressure Vessel Welds, via Neutron Diffraction’, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 2, pp 569-574, 2017

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21741/9781945291173-96

The article was published as article 96 of the book Residual Stresses 2016

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