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API650 PLATE STRESS DUE TO ATTACHMENTS

API650 PLATE STRESS DUE TO ATTACHMENTS

API650 PLATE STRESS DUE TO ATTACHMENTS

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Trying to work out the stress in the shell due to an attachment - like a pipe support or platform, and then if a compensating plate is required.
Can anyone help. Thanks.

RE: API650 PLATE STRESS DUE TO ATTACHMENTS

Refer to the various pressure vessel handbooks for some different approaches.  App. P can also be useful for some applications.

RE: API650 PLATE STRESS DUE TO ATTACHMENTS

Try this as a reference:

Procedure 5-3 in the Pressure Vessel Design Manual, By:  Dennis R. Moss, 1987

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