* Foreword** Preface* Challenges to material scientists and technologists for robust and economical fast reactor technology* Design and materials issues in relation to pressure vessel codes* Safety factors for global pressure equipment* The application of the linear matching method to the life assessment method R5: a comparison* Overview of research activities in BARC related to structural integrity of piping* Investigation of structural mechanics failure modes in FBRs* Multi-scale analytical modelling of pressure vessel materials* Determination of B2' stress Indices for elbows using plastic non-linear dynamic finite element analysis* Seismic fragility of pressure vessel for combined failure modes* Seismic testing and analyses on piping loop with relevance to recent changes in ASME section-III for level-D service conditions* Design philosophy of liquid metal heat exchangers in FBRS* Design and manufacture of PFBR steam generator* Shell design strength of industrial valves* Optimization of bolted flange joints with gasket using finite element analysis* A mixed formulation in the stress analysis of curved pipes under out of plane bending* An enriched element-free galrkin method for BI-material fracture mechanics* Non-axisymmetric dynamic response of buried thin orthotropic cylindrical shell due to incident compressional wave* An approximate solution to a specially orthotropic axisymmetric thin shell subjected to a harmonic boundary conditions* Optimization of horizontal cylindrical pressure vessels under stregth and stability constrains* Mechanical Stresses in thick FGM pressure vessels* Modelling of spring loaded safety value as an important device for pressure vessels and piping protection* Analysis of rotating disks under cyclic thermal and mechanical loads* On-line remaining life assessment of piping components in power plants* Development of 3-D online damage monitoring system for heavy water plant tuticorin* Leak before break application to high energy pipe lines of a 220 MWe Indian Nuclear Power Plant* Probabilistic assessment of the effect of cyclic load on crack initiation from a corrosion pit* Crack growth analysis of surface flaws in cylindrical shafts under combined bending torsion* Stress intensity factors for shell-nozzle junctions with part-through wall axisymmetric cracks under interal pressure* Limit load analysis of circumferentially cracked pipes using probabilistic models* Pipe stress analysis: A review of ASME B31.3 requirements its computer implementation* Application of plastic analysis in nozzle design of high pressure processing equipment* Effect of geometrical non-linearity on the load carrying capacity of thin shells with embeded stiffeners* Structural design of supports for large size pressure vessels* Design of a pressure vessel for human occupancy having rectangular door* Structural integrity evaluation of critical pipelines for a gas turbine engine* Stress analysis of piping of LZCS test facility for 500 MWe PHWR* Analysis of multi supported horizontal vessels* Failure analysis of multiply reinforced expansion bellows* Crack propagation in PFBR pipe elbows* Fatigue crack growth in circumferentially cracked stainless steel pipes* Experimental investigations on shell nozzle junction of steam generator for LBB justification* Investigations into failure of hot reheat LP bypass piping systems in utility sets* Reconstruction of the displacements and stresses at the points of pressurised tube via the given exterior displacements* Plastic deformation and fracture in low-carbon steel under fatigue conditions* Ab initio local approach and it use both to examine nature and to predict the irradiation effect on fracture toughness of pressure vessel steel* Crack modelling in power plant components* Safety concerns of shipboard installations* Authors Index* Subject Index* About the Editors.