Our primary focus as a R&D company is on the development of innovative structural integrity solutions that replicate “real world” behavior for the oil/gas and nuclear energy industries. We are both nationally and internationally recognized experts fracture mechanics, weld process modeling, safety assessments and risk analysis of complex engineered systems and structures. Our work has often been ground-breaking in nature and has been cited in the past when industry codes and standards are updated.
As a result of these past program successes, our staff routinely has the opportunity to publish their results and present them at conferences or have it included in technical journals. As a company, we have collectively published as many as twenty-five (25) technical papers in a single year and have averaged twenty (20) publications each year since 2007. To date, our staff members have published over 220 technical papers or journal articles since our founding in 1998 and the number of papers grows to over 500 when you factor in the publications from our staff members prior to their joining Emc2.
We are in the process of updating our list. the most recent papers can be found below, sorted by years. We will continue to update this list to add future work and complete the missing years
If you are looking for information on a particular topic and don’t see it here, please contact Mr. Gary Hattery at ghattery@emc-sq.com or Dr. Gery Wilkowski at gwilkows@emc-sq.com for further information.
2013 |
Correlation between Charpy USE and J-R Curve for High Strength Line-Pipe Materials Presentation 01.10.2013. |
Estimates of Plastic J-Integral and Crack Opening Displacement Considering Transition Crack from Surface to Through-Wall Crack in Cylinder Proceeding Proceedings of the ASME 2013 Pressure Vessels & Piping Division Conference, (PVP2013-97893), 2013. |
Determination of J-R Curves for Dissimilar Metal Welds Using Normalization Method and Compact Tension Specimens Proceeding Proceedings of the ASME 2013 Pressure Vessels & Piping Division Conference, (PVP2013-98051), 2013. |
Comparison of J Resistance Curves from Toughness Testing Specimens with Those from Various Cracked Pipe Tests Proceeding Proceedings of the ASME 2013 Pressure Vessels & Piping Division Conference , (PVP2013-98128), 2013. |
2006 |
Evaluation Of Leak/Rupture Limit For Axially Through-Wall Notched Line Pipes Using J-Integral Resistance Curve Proceeding Proceedings of the 6th International Pipeline Conference, (IPC2006-10505), 2006. |
2002 |
Development of a Procedure for the Calculation of J-R curves from Pressed-Notch Drop Weight Tear Test Specimens Proceeding Proceedings of the 4th International Pipeline Conference, 2002. |
1998 |
J-R Curves from Circumferentially Through-Wall-Cracked Pipe Tests Subjected to Combined Bending and Tension B Part I: Theory and Numerical Simulation Journal Article ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, 120 , pp. 406-411, 1998. |
J-R Curves from Circumferentially Through-Wall-Cracked Pipe Tests Subjected to Combined Bending and Tension B Part II: Experimental and Analytical Validation Journal Article ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, 120 , pp. 412-417, 1998. |
J-estimation Scheme for Internal Circumferential and Axial Surface Cracks in Pipe Elbows Journal Article ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, 120 (4), pp. 418-423, 1998. |
1997 |
Approximate Methods for Predicting J-integral of a Circumferentially Surface-Cracked Pipe Subject to Bending Journal Article International Jounal of Fracture, 85 (2), pp. 111-130, 1997. |
1996 |
Improvements to Surface-Cracked Pipe J-estimation Schemes: Comparison of Experiments and Analytical Predictions Proceeding Proceedings of the ASME 1996 Pressure Vessels & Piping Division Conference, 323 (pp 39-50), 1996. |
Fracture Analysis of Cracked Elbows: Part I - J estimation Schemes for Internal Circumferential and Axial Surface Cracks Proceeding Proceedings of the ASME 1996 Pressure Vessels & Piping Division Conference, 323 (pp 83-96), 1996. |
Comparison of Through-Wall Cracked Pipe and Compact Tension Specimen Cyclic J-R Curves Proceeding Proceedings of the ASME 1996 Pressure Vessels & Piping Division Conference, 323 (pp 217-232), 1996. |
1995 |
Improvements to Surface-Cracked Pipe J-estimation Schemes, Validation by Experiments, and Proposed Modification of the ASME Section XI Pipe Flaw Evaluation Criteria Proceeding 21st MPA Seminar, 1995. |
J-R Curves from Through-Wall-Cracked Pipe Tests - Combined Loading and Short Crack Considerations Proceeding Proceedings of the ASME 1995 Pressure Vessels & Piping Division Conference, 304 (pp 355-374), 1995. |
Comparison of Static and Dynamic Strength and J-R Curves of Various Piping Materials from the IPIRG-1 Program Journal Article International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, 62 , pp. 49-58, 1995. |
1993 |
Comparison of Static and Dynamic Strength and J-R Curves of Various Piping Materials from the IPIRG-1 Program Proceeding Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, (G12/4), 1993. |
1990 |
Extrapolations of C(T) Specimens J-R Curves for Use in Pipe Flaw Evaluations Proceeding ASTM , STP 1074 (pp. 56-84), 1990. |
1989 |
A Predictive J-Estimation Method for Circumferentially Surface Cracked Pipes of Power-Law Hardening Materials in Pure Bending Proceeding ASME Special Technical Publication, 167 (pp. 71-86), 1989. |
1983 |
Effect of Flaw Shape on J-Resistance Curve of a Circumferentially Cracked Pipe Proceeding ASME Special Technical Publication PVP, 95 , 1983. |
1982 |
Single Specimen J-Resistance Curve Evaluations Using the Direct-Current Electric Potential Method and a Computerized Data Acquisition System Proceeding Proceedings of the ASTM 15th National Symposium on Fracture Mechanics, ASTM STP 833 (pp. 553-576), 1982. |