撰写本报告的目的是在一份文件中概述小组委员会关注领域的简要背景说明，以及目前可供行业使用的信息，并帮助确定小组委员会未来将开展的研究方向。 编制本报告的小组委员会已将当前主题与小组委员会任务组的任务联系起来。每一个主题都是这样写的，这样就可以完整地阅读，而不必交叉引用其他主题。 这样做是为了明确起见，并制定一个程序，以纳入压力容器研究委员会压力部件动态分析小组委员会的未来工作。

The intent in writing this report was to summarize, in one document, a brief background description of areas of concern to the Subcommittee as well as information currently available to industry and to assist in determining the course of research this Subcommittee will undertake in the future. The Subcommittee in developing this report has associated the current topics with the Subcommittee Task Group assignments. Each topic has been written so that it can be read in its entirety without having cross references to other topics. This was done for clarity and to develop a procedure for inclusion of future work of the Pressure Vessel Research Committee, Subcommittee on Dynamic Analysis of Pressure Components.