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ASME is of course an accepted code by PED, but as it was said in this post, if you design using ASME VII for example you will have some additional requirements. However, there are certain rules that are considered "Harmonized", so, if you use them as your design code the compliance with PED is...

I suppose if you use a CAP (234-WPB) that would be done using hot conforming, and in that case PWHT would not be neeeded. Can anyone confirm?

tananT.... Your question is toooo much "easy" for a tooo much "difficult" question.. I suggest you try to find good information in internet, books, manuals, reading ASME codes, and asking more expert engineers.

rkdpv, You should check with ASME VIII Div.1 (with the assumption you're talking about pressure vessel). In UCS-66 you can check, because it depends of the thickness. For 20 kg/cm2 I think your thickness will be more than 15mm (of course it depends on the dimensions on the vessel..) so you will...

JStephen is right. It dependes on the application, I was supposing your question was for a pressure vessel.

You should refer to ASME VIII Div.1 UCS-66 to see if impact test is required (Curve D for SA-516 Grade 70 Normalized) Generally carbon steel is no "adequate" for temperatures below -29ºC (-20ºF), but SA-516 if normalized has good working below that temperature. For example, if temperature is...

For your first question, I think a good practice would be to have a extra length of One Diameter in the whole bolt.

FrancKx, I don't think that will be a good design, but maybe you could calculate it correctly and demostrate it will be ok. Is it possible to use LUGS instead of LEGS? With that design it would be easier to calculate the use of two supports.

Thank you all for your help. I couldn't find any information in order to know which number should be consider for temperature variation. I will contact an expert about this, becasue I'm not in the position to decide, but I find strange that nobody has experience with this so to know if the...

Thank you for your quick responses! Maybe I was wronk, but I thought ASME VIII Div.2 Ed.2007 was not complusory at this moment. I also think my vessel will need a fatigue analysis, but I wanted to know how to consider the temperature changes I have previously told (from 20ºC to -170ºC). In ASME...

Hello All, I have two doubts regarding cyclic service / fatigue analysis thay I can't understand, and I'd be very pleased if you could give me a hand: 1- The vessel (horizontal drum, thickness 1/2")has temperature cyclic service. The vessel is at ambient temperature (20ºC = 68ºF), and when the...

I don't find specially strange that a pad covers a seam, as weldtek sayed. You should revise your client specifications, because it is quite common that include something about it. For example UOP specifications, which quite a good reference for all petrochemical projects, asks to have 3"...

Hello All, I am currently designing a small vessel, which needs to be supported on lugs, and I have a doubt. The vessel dimensions are Tl-TL 2000mm aprox 79") and diameter 600mm (24"). MAterial SA-240 304, the same as lugs. Due to piping needs if we install it on four lugs it's really difficult...

Good point, gr2vessels. I've found a maximum of aprox. 15 PSI a usual practice. Some clients specify a minimum of 6 PSI. I think a pressure between 6 and 15 PSI are good values, and enough to know if pad is ok. Cheers,

Thank you for all the comments! 9" and 12", as DG72 is saying, I think are most common lengths. Our LWN are stainless steel (SA-182 Gr. F304L) and they need to be LWN or self reinforced WN, as the vessel is in cyclic service. Do you consider if the vendor considers difficult to find (or the...