... to the service safety of railway vehicles. At present, engineers and technicians have carried out a lot of research on fatigue life of welded structures. Welded structure Stress state Welding defect Safety assessment Fatigue life National key research and development program of China...

... of this paper is to focus on a coupled thermal-drop impact analysis-based safety assessment of a nuclear fuel cask. Design/methodology/approach For the cask, high altitude falling and fire accidents are the two most serious accidents during its transportation. In this paper, a sequentially coupled thermal...