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Search Publications by: Dave McColskey (Assoc)

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The Reproducibility of a Proposed Standard Fatigue Test for Cardiac Device Leads

August 1, 2019
Author(s)
Timothy P. Quinn, Jolene D. Splett, Joseph D. McColskey, James Dawson, David Smith, Adam Himes, Daniel Cooke
The Transvenous Cardiac Leads Working Group of the Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices Committee of The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI CRMD WG1) is developing a fatigue performance standard for cardiac device leads. The

Low-Cycle Fatigue Behavior of Fiber-Laser Welded, Corrosion-Resistant, High-Strength Low Alloy Sheet Steel

February 21, 2017
Author(s)
Jeffrey W. Sowards, Erik A. Pfeif, Matthew J. Connolly, Joseph D. McColskey, Stephanie L. Miller, Brian J. Simonds, James R. Fekete
Incorporation of high-strength steels into ground vehicles provides a weight-savings advantage by using thinner sections of material, which increases vehicle efficiency. Advanced welding techniques such as fiber laser welding are a potential method for

Temperature-Dependent Material Modeling for Structural Steels: Formulation and Application

April 15, 2016
Author(s)
Mina S. Seif, William E. Luecke, Lisa Y. Choe, Joseph A. Main, Joseph D. McColskey, Chao Zhang, Jonathan M. Weigand, John L. Gross, Fahim Sadek
This report presents the formulation and application of a newly developed temperature-dependent material model for structural steels. First it presents a model for computing the stress-strain behavior of structural steel for conditions appropriate to fire

CURVED-WIDE PLATE TESTING OF X100 GIRTH WELDS

September 29, 2014
Author(s)
Timothy S. Weeks, Joseph D. McColskey, Mark D. Richards, Yong-Yi Wang, Marie A. Quintana
The curved-wide plate (CWP) tests are frequently used for assessing the quality of pipeline girth welds. Despite a large number of CWP tests having been conducted at great expense over many decades, an industry consensus standard remains unavailable

The effect of Acetobacter sp. and a sulfate-reducing bacterial consortium from ethanol fuel environments on fatigue crack propagation in pipeline and storage tank steels

February 1, 2014
Author(s)
Jeffrey W. Sowards, Charles H. Williamson, Timothy S. Weeks, Joseph D. McColskey, John R. Spear
This study evaluated the effects of microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) on fatigue crack growth of candidate materials useful in expanding bioethanol usage including: a storage tank steel (ASTM A36) and two pipeline steels (API 5L X52 and X70)

FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH OF TWO PIPELINE STEELS IN A PRESSURIZED HYDROGEN ENVIRONMENT

October 22, 2013
Author(s)
Andrew J. Slifka, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Nicholas Nanninga, Yaakov Levy, Joseph D. McColskey, Robert L. Amaro
Fatigue crack growth tests were conducted on two pipeline steel alloys, API 5L X52 and X100. Baseline tests were conducted in air, and those results were compared with tests conducted in pressurized hydrogen gas. All tests were run at (load ratio) R = 0.5

CTOA Testing of Pipeline Steels Using MDCB Specimens

September 1, 2013
Author(s)
Robert L. Amaro, Jeffrey W. Sowards, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Joseph D. McColskey, Christopher N. McCowan
Crack tip opening angle (CTOA) is used to rank the relative resistance to crack extension of various pipeline steels. In general, the smaller the CTOA value, the lower the resistance to crack extension. It is unclear, however, whether CTOA is a material

Performance Evaluation of High-Strength Steel Pipelines for High-Pressure Gaseous Hydrogen Transportation

April 1, 2013
Author(s)
Andrew J. Slifka, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Robert L. Amaro, Joseph D. McColskey, Yaoshan Chen, Ming Liu, Yong-Yi Wang
Pipeline steels suffer significant degradation of their mechanical properties in high-pressure gaseous hydrogen, including their fatigue cracking resistances to cyclic loading. Fatigue crack growth experiments were performed on X52 and X70 steels in both

Fatigue Flaw NDE Reference Standard Development - Phase I Feasibility Study

November 1, 2012
Author(s)
Mark D. Richards, Joseph D. McColskey, Dash Weeks
A feasibility study was performed to evaluate a novel method of accurately fatigue cracking steel plates to generate fatigue proposed fatigue crack reference standards. Fatigue cracks were introduced into low carbon steel reference plates in which the

FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH OF TWO X52 PIPELINE STEELS IN A PRESSURIZED HYDROGEN ENVIRONMENT

September 9, 2012
Author(s)
Andrew J. Slifka, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Neha N. Rustagi, Damian S. Lauria, Joseph D. McColskey, Robert L. Amaro
Fatigue crack growth tests were conducted on two API 5L X52 pipeline steel alloys. One alloy was from a new linepipe that was installed for hydrogen service in 2011. The other alloy was from a vintage pipe that first saw natural gas service in 1964

EFFECT OF ETHANOL FUEL AND MICROBIOLOGICALLY INFLUENCED CORROSION ON THE FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH BEHAVIOR OF PIPELINE STEELS

January 25, 2012
Author(s)
Jeffrey W. Sowards, Timothy S. Weeks, Joseph D. McColskey, James R. Fekete, Jain Luke, Charles H. Williamson
Ethanol fuel production and consumption is expected to increase significantly in the near future. Existing pipeline infrastructure could be repurposed to transport ethanol and other biofuels from production sources, such as those located in the Midwest, to

Ductile-Fracture Resistance in X100 Pipeline Welds Measured with CTOA

December 1, 2011
Author(s)
Elizabeth S. Drexler, Philippe P. Darcis, Christopher N. McCowan, Jeffrey W. Sowards, Joseph D. McColskey, Thomas A. Siewert
A test for evaluation of resistance to ductile fracture (crack tip opening angle, CTOA) was found to reveal changes in crack propagation through the strain and strength gradients near weld joints in X100 pipeline steels. This test provides a long ligament

High-temperature tensile constitutive data and models for structural steels in fire

November 30, 2011
Author(s)
William E. Luecke, Stephen W. Banovic, Joseph D. McColskey
This report documents the stress-strain behavior of a collection of structural steels recovered from the collapse of the World Trade Center. These steels, combined with literature data form the basis of a model for the stress-strain behavior of structural

Fracture of X100 Pipeline Steel: Combined Experimental-Numerical Process

August 26, 2011
Author(s)
Mordechai Szanto, Christopher N. McCowan, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Joseph D. McColskey
Accurate characterization of material fracture properties is necessary for reliable numerical prediction of rupture in gas pipelines. In the current work the ductile fracture properties for high strength X100 pipeline steel, was evaluated, using

United States Capitol Dome:Characterization of Cast and Wrought Materials

January 2, 2011
Author(s)
Christopher N. McCowan, Thomas A. Siewert, David Olson, Joseph D. McColskey
Restoration of the cast iron dome at the United States Capitol is needed because moisture is leaking into interior areas of the building due to corrosion damage. Microstructure, composition, and tensile properties of cast and wrought samples from the dome