The best paper of 2018 in ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology is Viscoelastic and Damage Model of Polyethylene Pipe Material for Slow Crack Growth Analysis (by Yue Zhang, Xiangpeng Luo, Jianfeng Shi). The first author of the paper is Zhang Yue, a PhD student in the Institute of Process Equipment, Zhejiang University, guided by Prof. Jinyang Zheng and Associate Prof. Jianfeng Shi.

ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology is the top international journal in the field of pressure vessels. It recognizes the most innovative paper each year with an Outstanding Technical Paper of the Year. This is second Outstanding Technical Paper award for China since 2006.