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    Stairway forces on Shell

    Spiral starcases likely have low loads, However it is quite common in chemical plants to support large structures, platforms, pipe supports off the sides of tanks. At the end of the day, the analysis method is usually borrowed from the pressure vessel world, and the resources like what HTURKAK...
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    Surge Protection

    a) they work as designed, but tend to leak after a little while in service, if it's critical you have no leaks, I'd avoid it. If your operating pressure is close to the opening set point, tend to leak even more. b) don't know what this is. c) regarding a & maybe b, usually these help to treat...
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    750 AUD per year for Engineer Australia membership. Is it a joke?

    My 2 Cents. Having lived and breathed it in QLD (QLD has had a professional engineers Act for about 100 years). - CPeng (Engineers Australia) is not mandatory, but people see it has a defacto badge to indicate competence in the absence of any legislation (in litigation lawyers could argue it's...
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    Minimum required thickness for PAUT for process piping

    Rule of thumb is around 6-8mm as the minimum for any form of ultrasonic crack testing (PAUT is just a fancy version of UT). However, if someone does qualification testing on sample plates, and all the stuff that does with it, that value may be able to be reduced on a case by case basis. I've...
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    Ladder Safety Systems

    I don't have direct experience, and I'm a mechanical engineer, not structural. I cna't answer Q1 and 2, but here are my thoughts on Q3. It would be worth checking if the rating of the system is based on Testing vs Calculations. Actual loads via testing are likely to be significantly different...
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    Tank Settlement Survey

    My typical experience is an operating facility would survey every 5-10 years, but do it as a whole site survey, typically there will be other structures (e.g. stacks) or large buildings or strain critical equipment where some sort of survey is also a good idea. Normally just group it into that...
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    Hydrogen Embrittlement ASTM A574

    I once had to deal with a significant stress corrosion cracking failure of B7 studs. These looks similar, but in reality, to know anything is to send them away for testing. In saying that I learnt 2 super important factors in relation to fastener manufacturing, that are not obvious, and are...
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    When would piping need to be replaced due to an overpressure event where the Yield Stress was exceeded?

    Assuming plain old carbon steel piping and assuming the fluid doesn't cause some sort of weird corrosion mechanism related to the steel yielding, I'd say do a visual, if nothing obvious, leave it alone. I'd be more worried about crack like flaws, but again is the piping it "hot" that's probably...
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    Spacing Between Openings on Pipe Circumference – Limitations?

    only other comment to add is how easy it is to construct; the welder might not be too happy about trying to get an electrode into a crevice and somehow make a compliant but weld with a mirror and an electrode bent at 70deg to fit... I'd always run something like this past a welder to make sure...
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    iAlert3 replacement recommendations

    I've seen the Emerson product deployed, works well, but cost is likely higher than the i-alert system. https://www.emerson.com/en-au/automation/asset-performance-management/asset-monitoring/condition-monitoring/online-condition-monitoring-mechanical-assets There is probably half a dozen...
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    Inadequate PWHT holding time for Carbon Steel piping in caustic service (NACE SP-0403)

    I guess there are 2 issues here, 1) Contract acceptance 2) Plant performance., but I'll preface this with a few points A) From my experience with CSCC -> It's not an exact science, the NACE curves should be considered guidelines with quite wide bands. Depending on the fluid and other...
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    Very High Temperature Piping Stresses

    I did something for a trial in a furnace once ~ 1100 C. Still used B31.3 / 31.1 principles, but 1) Tracked down material properties at that temp, and used the Su/3, Sy/1.5 criteria to determine an allowable stress 2) Looked at creep data (in my case was short term service (days to weeks for...
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    Techniques to enforce nearly uniform flow velocity in a rectangular duct

    Here's a random paper that describes it fairly well. https://www.flowconditioner.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/FFC-Whitepaper-3_CPA.pdf In practice there is a boundary layer, you will never get an equal velocity profile across the full cross-sectional area, however you can improve it /flatten...
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    Pump Priming Instrumentation

    Hey everyone, Thanks for the replies.
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    Pump Priming Instrumentation

    Hi Team, I went down a rabbit hole a little while ago about using instrumentation to prove a centrifugal pump is primed. Intent is to have interlocks or alarms to prevent dry running of said pump after a maintenance changeout and / or suction piping lineup changes. I'll note the question for...
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