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Timothy P. Quinn, Jolene D. Splett, Joseph D. McColskey, James Dawson, David Smith, Adam Himes, Daniel Cooke
The Transvenous Cardiac Leads Working Group of the Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices Committee of The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
Jeffrey W. Sowards, Erik A. Pfeif, Matthew J. Connolly, Joseph D. McColskey, Stephanie L. Miller, Brian J. Simonds, James R. Fekete
Incorporation of high-strength steels into ground vehicles provides a weight-savings advantage by using thinner sections of material, which increases vehicle
Jolene D. Splett, William E. Luecke, Joseph D. McColskey
An interlaboratory study was conducted to establish precision statements for E1450-09, Standard Test Method for Tension Testing of Structural Alloys in Liquid
Mina S. Seif, William E. Luecke, Lisa Y. Choe, Joseph A. Main, Joseph D. McColskey, Chao Zhang, Jonathan M. Weigand, John L. Gross, Fahim Sadek
This report presents the formulation and application of a newly developed temperature-dependent material model for structural steels. First it presents a model
Timothy S. Weeks, Joseph D. McColskey, Mark D. Richards, Yong-Yi Wang, Marie A. Quintana
The curved-wide plate (CWP) tests are frequently used for assessing the quality of pipeline girth welds. Despite a large number of CWP tests having been
Elizabeth S. Drexler, Joseph D. McColskey, Marc Dvorak, Neha N. Rustagi, Damian S. Lauria, Andrew J. Slifka
Testing the fatigue crack growth of materials at low frequencies has been a tug-of-war between the investment of time and starting at high values of the stress
Jeffrey W. Sowards, Charles H. Williamson, Timothy S. Weeks, Joseph D. McColskey, John R. Spear
This study evaluated the effects of microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) on fatigue crack growth of candidate materials useful in expanding bioethanol
Andrew J. Slifka, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Nicholas Nanninga, Yaakov Levy, Joseph D. McColskey, Robert L. Amaro
Fatigue crack growth tests were conducted on two pipeline steel alloys, API 5L X52 and X100. Baseline tests were conducted in air, and those results were
Jeffrey W. Sowards, Timothy S. Weeks, Joseph D. McColskey
This study presents an evaluation of fatigue crack propagation in three steel materials (A36, X52, and X70) in a simulated fuel grade ethanol environment. A
Robert L. Amaro, Jeffrey W. Sowards, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Joseph D. McColskey, Christopher N. McCowan
Crack tip opening angle (CTOA) is used to rank the relative resistance to crack extension of various pipeline steels. In general, the smaller the CTOA value
Richard Reed, Robert Walsh, Timothy S. Weeks, Joseph D. McColskey, N. N. Martovsky
Compression-fatigue tests at ∼77 K were conducted to compare two insulation systems (epoxy resin impregnated glass/Kapton) for use in the ITER central solenoid
Andrew J. Slifka, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Robert L. Amaro, Joseph D. McColskey, Yaoshan Chen, Ming Liu, Yong-Yi Wang
Pipeline steels suffer significant degradation of their mechanical properties in high-pressure gaseous hydrogen, including their fatigue cracking resistances to
Timothy S. Weeks, Joseph D. McColskey, Richard Reed, Robert Walsh, N. Martovetsky
Abstract- Compression-fatigue tests at 76 K were conducted to compare two insulation systems (epoxy resin impregnated glass/Kapton) for use in the ITER Central
Mark D. Richards, Joseph D. McColskey, Timothy S. Weeks
A feasibility study was performed to evaluate a novel method of accurately fatigue cracking steel plates to generate fatigue proposed fatigue crack reference
Andrew J. Slifka, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Neha N. Rustagi, Damian S. Lauria, Joseph D. McColskey, Robert L. Amaro
Fatigue crack growth tests were conducted on two API 5L X52 pipeline steel alloys. One alloy was from a new linepipe that was installed for hydrogen service in
Jeffrey W. Sowards, Timothy S. Weeks, Joseph D. McColskey, James R. Fekete, Jain Luke, Charles H. Williamson
Ethanol fuel production and consumption is expected to increase significantly in the near future. Existing pipeline infrastructure could be repurposed to
Elizabeth S. Drexler, Philippe P. Darcis, Christopher N. McCowan, Jeffrey W. Sowards, Joseph D. McColskey, Thomas A. Siewert
A test for evaluation of resistance to ductile fracture (crack tip opening angle, CTOA) was found to reveal changes in crack propagation through the strain and
William E. Luecke, Stephen W. Banovic, Joseph D. McColskey
This report documents the stress-strain behavior of a collection of structural steels recovered from the collapse of the World Trade Center. These steels
Mordechai Szanto, Christopher N. McCowan, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Joseph D. McColskey
Accurate characterization of material fracture properties is necessary for reliable numerical prediction of rupture in gas pipelines. In the current work the
Christopher N. McCowan, Thomas A. Siewert, David Olson, Joseph D. McColskey
Restoration of the cast iron dome at the United States Capitol is needed because moisture is leaking into interior areas of the building due to corrosion damage
Ward L. Johnson, Thomas A. Siewert, Jessica Terry, Dat Duthinh, Mark A. Iadicola, William E. Luecke, Joseph D. McColskey
The Quantitative Tools for Condition Assessment of Aging Infrastructure Workshop was held May 4-5, 2010, in Boulder, Colorado. It was organized by a team of
Mark D. Richards, Timothy S. Weeks, Joseph D. McColskey, Bo Wang, Yong-Yi Wang
In support of using high strength steels for strain-based design of pipeline, curved wide plate (CWP) tests in tension are being performed on API 5L X100 pipes