PV Stress Records

Records in the PV Stress family make up the PV Stress reference table, which GE Digital APM uses to locate the appropriate Allowable Stress value for RBI Criticality Analyses that are linked to RBI Components whose Stress Lookup Table field contains the value Pressure Vessel.

This topic provides an alphabetical list and description of the fields that exist in the PV Stress family. The information in the table reflects the baseline state and behavior of these fields. The Material Type, Minimum Tensile Strength, and Minimum Tensile Yield fields exist in the PV Stress family, but they are not used to determine the Allowable Stress value.

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Field	Data Type	Description	Behavior and Usage
Allowable Stress	Numeric	The maximum amount of pressure that can safely be withstood by a component.	This value in this field, in addition to the following other PV Stress fields, is used to determine the value that is populated in the Allowable Stress field in the associated RBI Criticality Analysis: Code Year Construction Code Design Temperature Material Grade Material Spec Stress Lookup Table
Code Year	Character	The year in which the design code that corresponds to the component was defined.	The value in this field is used to populate the Code Year field in the associated RBI Criticality Analysis: This field must contain a value in order for GE Digital APM to retrieve: The value in the Allowable Stress field in the PV Stress record from the PV Stress reference table. Values in the Material Spec list in the PV Stress record.
Design Code	Character	The design code associated with the component.	The value in this field is used to populate the Construction Code field in the associated RBI Criticality Analysis. This field must contain a value in order for GE Digital APM to retrieve the value in the Allowable Stress field in the PV Stress record from the PV Stress Reference table.
Material Grade	Character	The material grade of the component.	The value in this field is used to populate the Material Grade field in the associated RBI Criticality Analysis. This field must contain a value in order for GE Digital APM to retrieve the value in the Allowable Stress field in the PV Stress record from the PV Stress Reference table.
Material Specification	Character	The material specification of the component.	The value in this field is used to populate the Material Spec field in the associated RBI Criticality Analysis. This field must contain a value in order for GE Digital APM to retrieve: The value in the Allowable Stress field in the PV Stress record from the PV Stress reference table. Values in the Material Grade list in the PV Stress record.
Metal Temperature	Numeric	The temperature of the metal of which the component is made.	The value in this field is used to populate the Design Temperature field in the associated RBI Criticality Analysis. This field must contain a value in order for GE Digital APM to retrieve the value in the Allowable Stress field in the PV Stress record from the PV Stress reference table.
Minimum Tensile Strength	Numeric	The minimum tensile strength of the material of the component.	None
Minimum Yield Strength	Numeric	The minimum yield strength of the material of the component.	None