Thanks for your Replies. I appreciate it.
TGS4- Agreed on 1): It does seem that Canada, UK, China and India seem to have universities doing some research right now.
I'm interested in research on DBA considering the change from stress categorization in ASME BPVC Sec VIII Div. 2 (or British PD-5500 code) toward something more like the european code EM 13445-3 DBA "Direct Approach". I have to admit that I come from a different industry and am trying to get myself familiar with the codes and processes.
There seems to be lots of discussion and controversy (many long forum discussions and many papers written) on applying "stress categorization" now that folks are using more detailed FEM 3-D models, which are now highlighting stresses at local surface stress concentrations and stress at discontinuities with resolution that wasn't available when the stress category techniques were developed.
We have a research project that is not in the pressure vessel industry but is very closely related to these issues. So we're looking for partners to work toward a straightforward approach to setting guidelines for detailed FEM analysis of complex parts. In my industry I'm more familiar with research being carried out by universities to move forward research, but I'm getting the feeling that the pressure vessel industry is more closely tied to industry partners (a good thing, in my opinion); Most of the chairmen of ASME BPVC committees seem to have active industry jobs rather than college professorships.
When ASME wants to research making changes to their code to they contract with private companies to get that work accomplished?
