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.
2017 |
Fracture Toughness Variation with Flaw Depth in Various Specimen Geometries and Role of Constraint in Material Fracture Resistance Proceeding ASME Proceedings of the ASME 2017 Pressure Vessels & Piping Conference, (PVP2017-65441), 2017. |
2010 |
Analysis of JNES Seismic Tests on Degraded Piping Technical Report Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NUREG/CR- 7015), 2010. |
2009 |
Investigation of Weld Crack Mitigation Techniques With Advanced Numerical Modeling and Experiment Proceeding 2009 Pipeline Technology Conference, Belgium, 2009. |
Delaminations cracking in advanced Aluminum-Lithium alloys – experimental and computational studies Journal Article Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 76 , pp. 2174-2191, 2009. |
2006 |
Effects of Geometry, Temperature, and Test Procedure on Reported Failure Strains from Simulated Wide Plate Tests Proceeding Proceedings of the 6th International Pipeline Conference, (IPC2006-10496), 2006. |
Examination of Service Cracks in CRDM Nozzles and Relevance to Flaw Evaluation Procedures Proceeding Proceedings of the ASME 2006 Pressure Vessels & Piping Division Conference, (PVP2006-ICPVT11-93995), 2006. |
2004 |
Validation of Pipe Flaw Evaluation Procedures in Section XI of the ASME Code Against Pipe Fracture Experiments Proceeding Proceedings of the ASME 2004 Pressure Vessels & Piping Division Conference, (PVP2004-2711), 2004. |
Tensile Strain Limits of Girth Welds with Surface-Breaking Defects Part II Experimental Correlation and Validation Proceeding Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pipeline Technology, 2004. |
2003 |
Experimental Investigation of CTOA in Linepipe Steels Journal Article Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 30 , pp. 567-577, 2003. |
2002 |
Determination of the Region of Steady-State Crack Growth from Impact Tests Proceeding Proceedings of the 4th International Pipeline Conference, 2002. |
Development of a FAD-Based Girth Weld ECA Procedure, Part II Experimental Verification Proceeding Proceedings of the 4th International Pipeline Conference, 2002. |
Damage Initiation and Residual Strength Modeling in Aircraft Structures and Comparison to Experimental Test Results Proceeding 6th Joint FAA/DoD/NASA Aging Aircraft Conference, 2002. |
Damage Initiation And Residual Strength Modeling In Aircraft Structures And Comparison To Experimental Test Results From Faster Proceeding 6th Joint FAA/DoD/NASA Aging Aircraft Conference, 2002. |
2000 |
Acceptance Criteria For Blunt Erosion-Corrosion Type Of Flaws In Piping - Comparison Of Analyses and Full-Scale Experiments Proceeding Proceedings of the ASME 2000 Pressure Vessels & Piping Division Conference, 2000. |
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. |
1997 |
IPIRG-2 Task 1 Report - Pipe System Experiments with Cracks in Straight Pipe Locations Technical Report Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NUREG/CR-6389), 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 II - Comparison of Experimental Results with Estimation Scheme Predictions Proceeding Proceedings of the ASME 1996 Pressure Vessels & Piping Division Conference, 323 (pp 97-108), 1996. |
Development and Application of a Database of Pipe Fracture Experiments Proceeding Proceedings of the ASME 1996 Pressure Vessels & Piping Division Conference, 323 (pp 13-26), 1996. |
Fracture Analysis of Full-Scale Pipe Experiments on Stainless Steel Flux Welds Journal Article Nuclear Engineering and Design, 160 , pp. 77-96, 1996. |
1995 |
Overview of the IPIRG-2 Program - Seismic Loaded Cracked Pipe System Experiments Proceeding SMiRT-13 Proceedings, 1995. |
Assessment of Short Through-Wall Circumferential Cracks in Pipes - Experiments and Analyses Technical Report Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NUREG/CR-6235), 1995. |
Effect of Constraint Due to Out of Plane Stress Field on Fracture of Reactor Pressure Vessel Steel—An Experimental and Analytical Study Technical Report American Society for Testing and Materials (STP 1244), 1995. |
Numerical Modeling and Experiments of Creep Crack Growth Under Cyclic Loading Technical Report American Society for Testing and Materials (STP 1256 (pp 304-331)), 1995. |
1994 |
The IPIRG-1 Pipe System Fracture Tests -- Experimental Results Proceeding Proceedings of the ASME 1994 Pressure Vessels & Piping Division Conference, 280 (pp. 135-152), 1994. |
The Effect of Dynamic and Cyclic Loading During Ductile Tearing on Circumferentially Cracked Pipe -- Experimental Results Proceeding Proceedings of the ASME 1994 Pressure Vessels & Piping Division Conference, 280 (pp. 207-220), 1994. |
Analyses of Full-Scale Pipe Fracture Experiments on Stainless Steel Flux Welds Proceeding Proceedings of the ASME 1994 Pressure Vessels & Piping Division Conference, 280 (pp, 241-254), 1994. |
Development of a Database of Pipe Fracture Experiments Journal Article Nuclear Engineering and Design, 151 , pp. 359-371, 1994. |
1993 |
Dynamic Fracture Analysis of the HDR-E31 Pipe System Experiments Proceeding Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Structural Mechanics Reactor Technology, (G12/1), 1993. |
Comparisons Between Finite-Element Analysis Predictions and Pipe Fracture Experiments Journal Article Nuclear Engineering and Design, 143 , pp. 201-215, 1993. |
1992 |
Development of a Database of Pipe Fracture Experiments Proceeding Proceedings of 18th MPA Seminar, Stuttgart, Germany, 1992. |
1991 |
USNRC's Pipe Fracture Tests Using Aged Cast Stainless Steel Pipe Presentation 01.11.1991. |
Results of Separate-Effects Pipe Fracture Experiments Proceeding Proceedings of the Post-SMiRT-11 Conference, (4.2), 1991. |
1990 |
Recent Results of Fracture Experiments on Carbon Steel Welded Pipes Journal Article International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, 43 , pp. 329-350, 1990. |
1987 |
Analysis of Experiments on Stainless Steel Flux Welds Technical Report Battelle memorial institute (NUREG/CR-4878), 1987. |
1986 |
A Combined Numerical/Experimental Study of Ductile Crack Growth After a Large Unloading Using T, J, and CTOA Criteria Journal Article Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 23 (3), pp. 537-550, 1986. |