Fitness for Service Approach (FFS) in Fatigue Life Prediction for a Spherical Pressure Vessel Containing Cracks

Subject Areas : Mechanical Engineering

J Jamali ¹ , E Mohamadi ² , T Naraghi ³

1 - Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar Branch, Shoushtar, Iran
2 - Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar Branch, Shoushtar, Iran
3 - Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2020-07-11 Accepted : 2020-09-17 Published : 2020-12-30

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