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UHX-13 Fixed Tubesheet Calcs

UHX-13 Fixed Tubesheet Calcs

UHX-13 Fixed Tubesheet Calcs

(OP)
As many of you know, the latest ASME Sec. VIII, Div. 1 2007 (A09) became mandatory in January, including the moderately revised UHX tubesheet calculations.  This is also the year our company is re-evaluated to maintain our code stamps, so we must verify our software by a separate means (we currently use BJAC, which has proven to be unreliable on more than one occasion).
I have made a MCAD template to run the latest calculations (seven simultanious load cases including iteration), but I don't have any reliable examples to verify my template against.  Hand calculations are not practical, and ASME never updated their UHX-20 examples to their own latest code.

Does anyone know where I can find some reliable examples with results, or know of some other method I can use besides an alternate off the shelf software?

RE: UHX-13 Fixed Tubesheet Calcs

Bam8888,

You can benchmark against UHX example provided in the ASME Sec. VIII Div. 1 code book. They are very detailed and have been checked with multiple programs, MathCAD etc.  

best regards,
Mandeep Singh

RE: UHX-13 Fixed Tubesheet Calcs

(OP)
I would do just that Mandeep1, unfortunately the examples in UHX were never updated to A09 (quite irresponsible in my opinion, but I'm not on the Code committee).  The best I can think to do is verify against PVElite as well as BJAC and see if the results match.  

Thanks for the help.

RE: UHX-13 Fixed Tubesheet Calcs

There were not too many drastic changes in the A-09 addenda for UHX. You can still use those to do a benchmark.  

best regards,
Mandeep Singh

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