Fatigue prediction tool adopted for ASME's boiler and pressure vessel codes

摘要

The latest edition of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler and Pressure Vessel Codes will include a welding fatigue prediction tool developed by the Battelle Memorial Institute (www.battelle.org). Battelle's Mesh-Insensitive Structural Stress method will appear in Section VIII, Division 2 of the code, and will be an alternative means for predicting fatigue and fatigue life. The fatigue prediction tool was developed by Dr. Pingsha Dong at Battelle.