The combined effects of explosive shock waves and high-velocity fragments pose critical challenges to the structural integrity of protective systems. Traditional experimental approaches often ...

How low can you go? That’s the question owners of gas turbine combined cycle plants are asking these days as they are being called upon to operate those units for rapid response in markets where load ...

Coal mining has progressively shifted to deeper regions of the mine over the years. Under the compounded effects of high in-situ stress and intensively dynamic pressure, the stress of surrounding rock ...

American Petroleum Institute's pressure vessel and tank committee recently concluded a 5-year effort to revise Standard 650 that provides design rules for reasonable margins against failure of ...

It’s been called “filling the duck pond,” and it’s the increasingly common challenge worldwide of balancing supply and demand when variable renewables are not feeding power to the grid. Gas-fired ...