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In modern society, the use of pressure vessels enters into many phases of human activity and, consequently, the services derived from pressure vessels lead to a tremendous variety of applications and associated engineering problems. The most important of these engineering problems covers various aspects of public safety and economics, and are noncompetitive. Since they are the responsibility of the entire engineering community and are of national concern, there has been a growing recognition by leaders in industry and government of the fact that the burden of finding solutions must be handled on a cooperative basis and that this effort can best be supported by equitable contributions from industry and/or public funds.

Such cooperative action was organized in the form of the Pressure Vessel Research Committee (PVRC) by the Welding Research Council of the Engineering Foundation in 1945.

With the more exacting demands of modern applications, the problems have multiplied and the resulting complexity requires careful planning. To this end, the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Committee established the ASME Special Committee to Review Code Stress Basis in 1955. This committee submitted an outline for needed pressure vessel research to PVRC in April 1959, consisting of eighteen topics. This outline has served as an effective guide for PVRC research during the past six years. Although the total program outlined at that time has not yet been completed, it was believed by PVRC that it should be brought up to date.

A suitable group to carry out the research planning for PVRC was created when the PVRC Program Evaluation Committee was formed in 1961. This group was originally charged with the responsibility of evaluating the research work done by PVRC and others, and to prepare a "PVRC Interpretive Report of Pressure Vessel Research", to make the results directly useable to the designer and code-making bodies. During the review and evaluation of available information, voids in the state of knowledge and the need for further research became apparent. Although these items are mentioned in the report, they needed to be organized into a consistent plan. With the initial task of the Evaluation Committee nearing completion, its major effort has shifted from evaluation and interpretation to planning. The results of this work are contained in this WRC Bulletin.

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Published: 1966 Number of Pages: 26 File Size: 1 file , 670 KB