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Flat Head Calculations

Flat Head Calculations

Flat Head Calculations

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Can anyone provide a useful resource for me?

I'm trying to evaluate the discontinuity stresses between a flat head and a shell.

The shell is thin enough to aplly membrane theory.

The flat head is too thick to apply thin plate (Kirchoff's) theory and so I need to consider the effect of shear strains within the plate.

Is there a book or web site that will show me how to derive the necessary equations (from theories like Mindel's) from first principles?

I don't have and will not be able to obtian, the necessary resources to evaluate this using finite element analysis.

Any help would be gratefully recieved.

Fawkes

RE: Flat Head Calculations

How about J.F.Harvey,"Pressure Conmponent Construction," (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold) 1980.  Chapter 4.7.3 has Discontinuity Stresses @  a Flat Head to Shell Joint.

Another place is in Appendix 4-7 "Discontinuity Stresses" in Sec.VIII, Div2 of the ASME B&PV Code.

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