Relief Mechanisms

Safety and relief valves must be the direct spring loaded type, and for pressure ranges noted below the code [1] requires  

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The set pressure tolerances of pressure relief valves are not to exceed 2 psi for pressures up to and including 70 psig and 3% for pressures above 70 psig. Indirect operation of safety valves, for example, by pilot valve, is not acceptable unless the primary unloading valve will automatically open at not over the set pressure and will operate fully in accordance with design relieving capacity conditions if some essential part of the pilot or auxiliary device should fail [I]. 

The pilot valve is a self-actuated pressure relief valve that controls the main valve opening. 

Rupture disks must have a specified bursting pressure at a specified temperature. There must be complete iden- 

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To avoid this situation, some regulators are designed with a built-in over-pressure relief mechanism. Over-pressure relief circuits usually are composed of a spring-opposed diaphragm and valve assembly that vents the downstream piping when the control pressure rises above the set point pressure. 

The spherical shape causes a pyramidalization of the C atoms and, therefore, a large amount of strain energy. Addition chemistry is driven by the strain reKef introduced by the formation of almost strain-free sp -C atoms. At a certain degree of addition this strain relief mechanism has to compete with new strain-introducing processes such as the increasing introduction of eclipsing interactions and the formation of planar cyclohexane substructures. 

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An alternative stress relief mechanism is crack formation and propagation [14.42]. The phenomenon is, for example, observed in (110) oriented YBCO films on (110)SrTiO3 substrates [14.17] see Fig. 14.9. In this system, misfit dislocations are formed at the deposition temperature while the cracks are introduced during cooling to room temperature. The crack spacing, /, depends on the film thickness, h, according to the expression... 

In the present analysis, large-scale spallations of alumina scales on NiAl were always connected with the presence of interfacial voids. In the absence of large voids and for small strain rate, it was found that the scale was well adherent under compressive substrate deformation even for large specimen deformations (cf. Fig. 7a).This suggests the presence of an effective stress relief mechanism by a slight scale wrinkling or by oxide Coble creep. 

In islands reaching a critical diameter of 30 atoms one atomic row sMfis by half a lattice constant onto bridge sites. This is the beginning of internal faceting continning as strain relief mechanism up to 20 ML. There is an abrupt stmctural transition to bet for 0 > 1 ML at 300 K 3 ML at... 

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Adhesive Joints tend to form a fillet of adhesive spew, owing to the squeezing of the adherents during bending. The existence of a spew fillet can reduce the stresses at the free end appreciably, because of a stress relief mechanism, so unless otherwise agreed it is desirable to maintain a form of spew fillet. 

On a flat bed, the extent of edge curling is determined not only by the lateral shrinkage tensile force, but also by the weight of the carrier, the weight of the tape itself, and other stress-relief mechanisms in place. 

Curling always begins with the tape edges, where the reduced thickness of the tape does not exert as much gravitational force. One of the other stress-relief mechanisms was covered in previous sections the Type II plasticizer. The Type II plasticizer in a tape structure can act as a lubricant, facilitating motion within the tape structure in response to drying stress instead of curling. 

Fig. 4. 26 Lateral stress relief mechanisms as a function of degree of drying in a tape.

The use of lead in tin plating and solder has been used to inhibit tin whisker growth. Rare reports of tin whiskers have been reported from tin-lead coatings. Whiskers evolve from tin surfaces as a stress-relief mechanism between tin crystals. Most stress in tin deposits arises from the growth of copper-tin intermetallics at the interface with underlying copper. With a much slower rate of nickel-tin intermetallic formation, tin whiskers form at a much lower rate than tin coatings on nickel underplate. 

The data of Fig. 1 show that there are fewer molecules effective in relaxing the bonded hydrogen in flakes of a-Si H which have been removed from the substrate than in gimilar films which remain on the substrate. It has been postulated that removal of the films from the substrate provides a strain relief mechanism which allows some of the trapped to diffuse out of the films. This speculation is supported by the fact that one can also achieve the same decrease in trapped H2... 

Serious and damaging consequences may result from accidents caused by fires and explosions. Therefore, the incineration system and its off-gas treatment system should be designed to withstand the effects of the overpressure caused by an explosion, and provided with a suitably located pressure relief mechanism. Furthermore, the following measures shall be instituted to minimize the potential for explosions or fires ... 

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