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American Society of Mechanical Engineers Design and Analysis of ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Components in the Creep Range by Maan H. Jawad, Robert I. Jetter
Many structures operate at elevated temperatures where creep and rupture are a design consideration, such as refinery and chemical plant equipment, components in power-generation units, and engine parts. At higher temperatures the material tends to undergo gradual increase in dimensions with time, which could eventually lead to rupture. Thus, the design of such components must take into consideration the creep and rupture of the material. In this book, a brief introduction to the general principles of design at elevated temperatures is given with extensive references cited for further in-depth understanding of the subject. A key feature of the proposed book is the use of examples to illustrate the practical application of the design and analysis methods presented. This book is suitable for practicing design engineers in the power and process industries, particularly those in involved with pressure equipment, nuclear structures, petrochemical equipment, and their supervisors._x000D_ Table of contents :- _x000D_
I: The Theory of Graphs.- 1: Basic Ideas.- History.- Initial Concepts.- Summary.- Exercises.- 2: Connectivity.- Elementary Results.- Structure Based on Connectivity.- Summary.- Exercises.- 3: Trees.- Characterizations.- Theorems on Trees.- Tree Distances.- Binary Trees.- Tree Enumeration.- Spanning Trees.- Fundamental Cycles.- Summary.- Exercises.- 4: Traversability.- Eulerian Graphs.- Hamiltonian Graphs.- Summary.- Exercises.- 5: Planarity.- The Utilities Problem.- Plane and Planar Graphs.- Planar Graph Representation.- Planarity Detection.- Duality.- Thickness and Crossing Numbers.- Summary.- Exercises.- 6: Matrices.- The Adjacency Matrix.- The Incidence Matrix.- The Cycle Matrix.- The Cut-Set Matrix.- The Path Matrix.- Summary.- Exercises.- 7: Digraphs.- Connectivity.- Traversability.- Directed Trees.- More Digraph Matrices.- The Principle of Directional Duality.- Tournaments.- Summary.- Exercises.- 8: Coverings and Colourings.- Covering, Independence, and Domination.- Colouring.- Matching.- Summary.- Exercises.- 9: Algorithms.- Algorithms.- Input.- Complexity.- Output.- Graph Analysis Algorithms.- Graph Optimization Algorithms.- Summary.- Exercises.- 10: Matroids.- Duality.- The Greedy Algorithm.- Summary.- Exercises.- II: Applications.- 11: Miscellaneous Applications.- Social Sciences.- Economics.- Geography.- Architecture.- Puzzles and Games.- Summary.- Exercises.- 12: Operations Research.- Operations Research and Graph Theory.- Graph Theoretic Algorithms in OR.- Graph Theoretic Heuristics in OR.- Digraphs in OR.- Optimization Algorithms.- Transportation Networks: Advanced Models.- Summary.- Exercises.- 13: Electrical Engineering.- Electrical Network Analysis.- Printed Circuit Design.- Summary.- Exercises.- 14: Industrial Engineering.- Production Planning and Control.- Facilities Layout.- Summary.- Exercises.- 15: Science.- Physics.- Chemistry.- Biology.- Summary.- Exercises.- 16: Civil Engineering.- Earthwork projects.- Traffic Network Design.- Summary.- Exercises.- Further Reading._x000D_