Full ring ovalization test for determining the susceptibility to cracking of linepipe steels in sour service. Test method

2016 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-58
Author(s):  
S. Vervaet ◽  
W. De Waele

With the use of high strength and high toughness steels in the pipeline industry it has become necessary tobetter understand the factors which influence the reliability and integrity of oil and natural gas pipelines. TheDrop-Weight Tear Test (DWTT) is a common test method to determine the fracture appearance andfracture ductility of steel. Its fundamental purpose is to determine the appearance of propagating fracturesin steels over the temperature range where the fracture mode changes from brittle to ductile. But there arestill many subjects of discussion concerning which results must be obtained, in which manner they shouldbe obtained and how they should be interpreted. Is it still possible to deduce a shear appearance fromsamples which have such an abnormal fracture that they used to be discarded as invalid ? Could resultsfrom the DWTT be correlated with the Crack Tip Opening Angle (CTOA), which is particularly important forfinite element modelling ? What to think about methods such as the two specimen CTOA and the simplifiedsingle specimen method ? How severe is the effect of tunnelling in contemporary linepipe steels and howcan this be dealt with ? Many questions still remain and many aspects are still vague despite the correlatingecological, economical and safety issues. Therefore, there is a major necessity for further investigations.


2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 983-989
Author(s):  
Xiang Dong Ding ◽  
Jing Yang ◽  
Yan Xiang ◽  
Hao Zhu

Web Service involves many participants including service developers, providers, UDDI, and clients, and provides a kind of distributed architecture model. Different participants of the web service own different resource related to the service, so, the test method they use will be also different. From the perspective of service users, the paper proposes a service test model. The model is mainly consist of three sub-models including the user requirements model, the WSDL model, and the generation model of the test cases. Users can make a function test by using the model only with the WSDL document. According to the test model, a prototype tool is implemented. In the last, an example is given to simulate the process of service test and validate the feasibility of the model.


Author(s):  
Kenji Kobayashi ◽  
Tomohiko Omura ◽  
Nobuaki Takahashi ◽  
Izuru Minato ◽  
Akio Yamamoto

X70 grade large diameter UOE linepipe steel for sour service has been manufactured stably by optimizing the continuous casting process, controlling the shape of inclusions and decreasing coarse precipitates. It is confirmed that the HIC and SSC resistance are good enough for severe sour conditions to apply. These higher strength linepipe steels for sour service are useful for the offshore and deep-sea pipelines. Additional improvements of HIC and SSC resistances are needed for manufacturing thicker and higher strength UOE linepipe steels for sour service. Optimizing alloying elements and ACC process are very important for the additional improvements of HIC and SSC resistance. In addition, the HIC evaluation method should be revised in order to match applied field conditions.


2019 ◽  
pp. 52-56
Author(s):  
Yu.F. Glukhov ◽  
N.V. Krutikov ◽  
A.V. Ivanov ◽  
N.P. Muravskaya

We have studied and analyzed status and metrological supervision of blood glucose monitors, individual devices for a person’s blood glucose level measurement. It has been indicated that nowadays blood glucose monitors like other individual devices for medical measurement are not allowed to be involved in telemedicine public service. This accounts for absence of metrological supervision with these measurement devices in telemedicine. In addition, the key problem is absence of safe methods and means of remote verificaition, calibration and transmission of measurement data to health care centers. The article offers a remote test method for blood glucose monitors using a number of resistors with values correlating with measured blood glucose level. The available method has been successfully trialed in real practice.


Author(s):  
Tran Minh Hieu ◽  
Nguyen Duong Ngoc Mai Chi

This study applied SERVQUAL scale of Parasuraman et al to measure factors affecting customer satisfaction on service quality at Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank - An Giang Branch (Techcombank An Giang). The study was conducted to survey 207 customers who have been using the service at Techcombank An Giang. The survey results were analyzed by the Cronbach's Alpha reliability test method, then used Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to verify and evaluate the scale of service quality. The results of the regression analysis show that customer's satisfaction about service quality at Techcombank An Giang includes four factors: The factor with the highest level is the Empathy with Beta = 0.253, the second of factor is the Responsibility with Beta = 0.248, ranked third in the influence level is the Tangible with Beta = 0.235, and the lowest impact level is the Reliability with Beta = 0.144. The research also uses statistical methods to describe and test the differences of demographic factors with customer's satisfactionon service quality.The analysis results show that there is no difference between customer's satisfaction on service quality and factors such as gender, age, income, number of transaction banks, regular transaction banks, and time to use the service at Techcombank An Giang. Through the research results, the author would like to propose some ideas to improve the quality of services, thereby attracting new customers and importantly, keeping traditional customers because the development orientation of Techcombank is to take care of old customers to cross sell other products of the bank. The Stud results offer a basis for the branch to identify the factors influencing customer satisfaction on their service quality, thereby having an appropriate strategy to improve customer satisfaction.


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