March fracture

API RP 920, Prevention of Brittle Fracture of Pressure Vessels, 1st ed., March 1990 (ANSI/API Publ 920-1992). 

Oscarson, J.H. and Graff, K.F., Summary Report on Spall Fracture and Dynamic Response of Materials, Battelle Memorial Institute Report No. BAT-197A-4-3, Columbus, OH, 37 pp., March 1968. 

Speidel, M. O., Influence of environment on fracture , Proc. 5th Int. Conf. on Fracture, Cannes, France, 29 March to 3 Arpril 1981, ICF5 Vol. 6, pp. 2685-704, Pergamon Press (1982)... 

Clark, J.B. Fast, C.R. Howard, G.C. "A Multiple Fracturing Process for Increasing the Productivity of Wells," 1952 Spring Meeting of the Midcontinent District API, Wichita, KS, March 19-21. 

Black, H.N. Hower, W.F. "Advantageious Use of Potassium Chloride Water for Fracturing Water Sensitive Formations", 1965 Spring Meeting of the Mid-Continent District Division of Production, Wichita, KS, March 31-April 2. 

Alderman, E.N. "Super Thick Fluids Provide New Answers to Old Fracturing Problems" SPE paper 2852, 1970 SPE Spring Symposium, Fort Worth, March 8-10. 

Dysart, G.R. Richardson, D.W. Kannenberg, B.G. "Second Generation Fracturing Fluids," paper 906-15-H, 1970 Spring Meeting of the Southwestern District Division of Production, Odessa, March 18-20. 

R.A., Jr. "High Efficiency Fracturing Fluids for High-Temperature, Low-Permeability Reservoirs", SPE/DOE paper 11615, 1983 SPE/DOE Symposium on Low Permeability, Denver, March 14-16. 

Buechley, T.C. and Lord, D.L. "Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Mechanics State of the Art," Fluid Mechanics of Oil and Gas Production Symposium, 1973 National Meeting, A.I.Ch.E., New Orleans, March 11 15. 

Veatch, R.W., Jr. "Current Hydraulic Fracturing Treatment and Design Technology," SPE paper 10039, 1982 SPE International Petroleum Exhibition and Technical Symposium, Bejing, China, March 28-26. 

Penny, G.S. "Nondamaging Fluid Loss Additives for Use in Hydraulic Fracturing of Gas Wells," SPE paper 10659, 1982 SPE Formation Damage Control Symposium, Lafayette, March 24-25. 

Barby, G.B. and Barbee, W.C. "Ultra-High Conductivity Fracture Stimulations A Case History," SPE paper 16222, 1987 SPE Production Operations Symposium, Oklahoma City, March 8-10. 

Acharya, A. "Particle Transport in Viscous and Viscoelastic Fracturing Fluids," SPE Prod. Eng.. March 1986, 104 110. 

Babcock, R.E., Prokop, C.L. and Kehle, R.O. "Distribution of Propping Agents in Vertical Fractures," paper No. 851 41-A, 1967 API Spring Meeting of the Mid-Continent District Division of Production, Oklahoma City, March 29 31. 

Hough, E.U. and Allen T.O. "Laboratory Techniques and Results of Tests to Determine Formation Damage from Fracturing Fluids," 1957 Spring Meeting of the Southern District Division of Production, Shreveport, March 20-22. 

Gall, B.L. and Raible, C.J. "Formation Damage from Exposure to Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids," NIPER-63, 1985 National Institute for Petroleum and Energy Research Topical Report, March 7. 

Graves, G. and Fellin, E. "Automated Rheology Equipment Facilitates Acid Fracturing Fluid Characterization," Presented at the SPE Computer Technology Symposium, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, March 6, 1986. 

Agarwal, R.G., Carter, R.D., and Pollock, C.B. "Evaluation and Performance Prediction of Low-Permeability Gas Wells Stimulated by Massive Hydraulic Fracturing," J. Pet. Technol. (March 1979) 362-372. 

Slough, K. J., Sudicky, E. A., and Forsyth, P. A., 1999, Importance of Rock Matrix Entry Pressure on DNAPLs Migration in Fractured Geologic Material Ground Water, March-April, pp. 237-244. 

It seems that the poles are warming faster than the rest of the planet. It was believed that because of the tilt of the Earth s axis, the North Pole was melting faster. This is disputed by the March 2008 report of the British Antarctic Survey that reported the fracture of the Wilkins floating ice shelf at the South Pole, which is the size of the state of Connecticut. 

Baer, E., Moet, A., Walton, K., in Proc. 5th Int. Conf. on Deformation, Yield and Fracture of Polymers, Cambridge, U.K., March 1982, London, Plastics and Rubber Inst, poster paper Ci (1982)... 

ESIS TC4 (1990). A Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics Standard for Determining Kc and Gc for Plastics, Testing Protocol - March. 

D. D. Macdonald, M. Urquidi-Macdonald, P.-C. Lu, The Coupled Environment fracture Model - A Deterministic Method for Calculating Crack Growth Rates, presented at CORROSION 94, Baltimore, MD, February 28-March 4, 1994, Paper 246. 

Over the years, a number of steel vessels, including those that have been lined with CRM, have failed by brittle fracture. A photograph of a failure of a brick lined tower, 60 ft. high that cracked the full length of the shell is shown in an article "Brick-Lined Tanks" by R. Ladd in the March 14 issue of Chemical Engineering p 192-198. The author knows of a similar experience where a lined "dry tower" in a sulfuric acid plant failed in a similar manner on a cold day in February. A "dry tower" drys combustion air by passing it countercurrent to a downward flow of sulfuric acid. 

---