Pressure Vessel Design Software
Pressure Vessel Design Software
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Just starting at a company that wants to implement a design software for vessels. I have only used COMPRESS in my experience so of course I am biased towards that software. Just looking for advise on what is considered the industry preferred software to use.





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The equations as you might well know are pretty simple, but it is all in the understanding and intrepretation of the code which is the more difficult aspect. Writting your own code, will force you to actually understand a few of the concepts.
If all becomes too hard... buy the cheaper software.
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Cheers,
gr2vessels
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But like ALL proprietary software, you are restricted to what they have encoded and once you have a design outside the limits of the software... then what? (Open the cheque book$)
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They do however, endorse the known softwares, including their shorcomings. That's good enough for me.
I am using my own little spreadsheets for quick calcs, but I won't embarass myself showing them to a Client.
Cheers,
gr2vessels
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Why, are they not correct? Our spreadsheets are pretty much the same as the code in the commercial software. If you go through the output of say CodeCalc, it is all the same stuff really.
We still use software for nozzle loading, tube sheets, etc, and include a combination of spreadsheets and software outputs in reports.
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ex-corus (semi-detached)
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HAVE YOU DONE THE FOLLOWING:
Software Quality Assurance
1. The SUPPPPLIER shall ensure that computer software, when used or developed in conjunction with PO, performs its intended specific functions in relation to the delivery of the items. Work processes involving such software must be developed and implemented using national or international consensus standards, such as IEEE Std 730, that provide an adequate level of quality assurance.
2. Software quality assurance (SQA) includes activities such as:
• Software project management and quality planning;
• Software risk management;
• Software configuration control;
• Software procurement and supplier management;
• Software requirements identification and management;
• Software design and implementation;
• Software safety;
• Software verification and validation;
• Software problem reporting and corrective action; and
• Training of personnel in the design, development, use, and evaluation of software.
3. The SUPPPLIES shall establish and implement a SQA procedure for defining and controlling SQA activities relevant to the PO.
4. The SUPPPLIES shall submit the SQA procedure to the BUYER for review and acceptance prior to PO implementation.
BEEN THEIR DID THAT
Leonard Stephen Thill
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Using comercial software you can quickly become a lazy number cruncher that doesn't fully understand the design technique you are using.
Compress is the most user friendly although PVElite cover more of ASME and covers PD 5500.
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I've really not seen a good solution. Plugging numbers into a program and saying "I guess it's right, or they wouldn't have sold it to me" doesn't seem to be the ideal solution. Checking something like that gets very involved, and is actually more involved when you're checking someone else's work than on your own.
Note that in addition to the code calcs, you have wind, seismic, saddle design, local nozzle loads, etc., and those items are not codified to the extent you might expect, and allow for a lot of variation in the design.
There are similar issues with tank design software, and from past experience, I have found that it can be out-of-date, wrong, limited in unforeseen ways, etc. Maybe the PV field is better in that respect.
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The guy just wanted to know what is good software, not a hyped-up philosophical debate on whether or not to use it, and implications that "real men don't need software." Please.
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I can't comment on other software but CodeCalc (PVE) is good, a few bugs but overall say 7-8/10.
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