Ductile Failure and Safety Optimization of Gas Pipeline

Subject Areas : Engineering

P Zamani ¹ ( Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran )
A Jaamialahmadi ² ( Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran )
M Shariati ³ ( Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran )

Received: 2016-07-11 Accepted : 2016-09-15 Published : 2016-12-20

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