Pressure Equipment Technology Theory and Practice

by Banks, W. M.; Nash, David

• ISBN13: 9781860584015
• ISBN10: 1860584012
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-27
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

The safe design and operation of pressure equipment and pressure systems is key to much of the infrastructure in any present-day industrial society. This book presents an amalgam of best practice from a range of international specialists, as well as highlighting new areas that require research and development.In May 2002, pressure equipment took a major step forward with the emergence of the first edition of the new European Standard EN13445. Pressure Equipment Technology; Theory and Practice not only describes and analyses the status of the new Standard (providing underpinning data) but primarily it seeks to provide new light and present new information on many of the areas where there is insufficient coverage in EN13445 or other Standards.The information is presented in a variety of ways in order to make it useful not only for the specialist but for the general reader as well. The researcher in pressure vessel technology will find here a comprehensive and up-to date picture on many important and vital topics that need to be considered. The non-expert will also find a variety of different analysis approaches that will give interest in a whole spectrum of pressure equipment and storage vessels.The papers and information included in this volume give expert guidance on a variety of important topics that must be understood if appropriate design of pressure equipment is going to be undertaken. These include, Piping and Finite Element Analysis Saddles - Plastic Collapse Loads Vessel Ends and Eccentric Loads Containment Vessels Explosive Loading Welding and Fatigue

Author Biography

W. M. Banks and David Nash are the authors of Pressure Equipment Technology: Theory and Practice, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
A short biography of John Spence	p. xi
Bibliography of publications	p. xvii
Piping and Finite Element Analysis
Limit loads for cracked piping branch junctions--finite element parametric study	p. 3
An assessment of the pressure reduction effect in piping elbows under inplane moment loading	p. 25
FE analysis of the creep of branched pipes	p. 41
Shakedown of thick vessels with circular and elliptical radial crossholes	p. 67
Saddles--Plastic Collapse Loads
Horizontal saddle supported storage vessels--theoretical and experimental comparisons of plastic collapse loads	p. 87
Horizontal saddle supported storage vessels--a parametric study of plastic collapse loads	p. 109
Vessel Ends and Eccentric Loads
A numerical study of a form of reinforcement for very thin torispherical pressure vessel ends	p. 139
Load capacity of eccentrically loaded stainless steel columns	p. 149
Containment Vessels
Numerical simulation of limit load testing of a 1/4 scale pre-stressed concrete containment vessel	p. 171
Interpreting photoelastic data obtained for a spherical containment vessel	p. 199
Explosive Loading
Investigation of a refinery fire and explosion	p. 215
On the simplified analysis of square plates under explosion loading	p. 225
Welding and Fatigue
Assessment of pressure vessel design rules on the basis of fatigue test data	p. 237
Structural mechanics approaches to weld integrity assessment for pressure vessel attachments	p. 249
Evolution of the NDT quality infrastructure for pressure vessels and equipment	p. 269
European pressure equipment--standards and legislation	p. 281
Index	p. 299
Authors' Index	p. 303
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