On Determining Reference Stresses for High Temperature Thin/Thick Tube Bends
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It is well known that tube/pipe bends have some degree of ovality caused during their manufacture. For the first time, based on limit analysis, the authors previously presented an explicit expression for calculation of the reference stress of tube/pipe bends with varying degrees of ovality that are subjected to uniform internal pressure. The present paper assesses this expression using an elastic-creep finite volume analysis. This is due to availability of an in-house finite volume code. It is shown that the references stresses predicted by proposed expression correlate well with those computed using elastic-creep analyses for tube/pipe bends with various degrees of ovality.