Please offer your opinion
Please offer your opinion
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If you are in possession of a draft copy of API 650 Proof 1 January 2007 - refer to:
3.1.5.2 under Vertical Shell Joints par b. - "shell courses shall be flush-stacked on the inside"
3.1.5.3 under Horizontal Shell Joints par b. - "abutting shell plates at horizontal joints shall have a common vertical centerline"
Question - do you find these paragraphs contradictory?
3.1.5.2 under Vertical Shell Joints par b. - "shell courses shall be flush-stacked on the inside"
3.1.5.3 under Horizontal Shell Joints par b. - "abutting shell plates at horizontal joints shall have a common vertical centerline"
Question - do you find these paragraphs contradictory?





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Thanks for your response.
Do you design tanks with shells of different thicknesses within the same course?
FTank
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Joe Tank
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Application where plates in a course vary would be flush manway insert plates under older version of the standard.
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There were a lot of changes.
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