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    ASME Section VIII Division 3, Design temperature and its application to Aluminum parts

    Hi Everyone, I'm trying to understand the implications of the definition of the design temperature in Section KD-112 of Division 3. Specifically, we would like to use Aluminum for the polar boss in the design of a composite pressure vessel, and during some processing stages of the part we...
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    Section VIII division 1 and it's application to the design of a polar boss for a ASME Section X tank

    Thank you everyone for responding to my question. I appreciate the links and information everyone provided. To answer racookpe1978, the service pressure is 1350 psi with a safety factor of 5, so a burst pressure of 6750 psi. Not sure if that helps. In terms of a sketch of the polar boss, it's...
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    Section VIII division 1 and it's application to the design of a polar boss for a ASME Section X tank

    Hi All, I'm trying to understand how Section VIII division 1 applies to metallic parts that are being incorporated into a fiber reinforced composite tank that's being designed to Section X rules. I'm specifically looking at Class 1 FRC tanks. It's stated in Section X that the design of all...
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