Jtseng123,
Thank you for the excellent response. That is exactly what I was looking for. I believed that this was possible but did not know the exact procedure.
I am building a horizontal vessel with 0.375" thick shell walls in Compress and the customer requires large nozzle loadings to be applied to each nozzle. For a particular 30" ID nozzle, the nozzle loadings are so large that the reinforcement pad required is outside of allowable Code...
Being a younger engineer, I do not have any experience with Div. 2 prior to the 2007 edition rewrite. From what I've read, I know there was a major restructuring but I can't find any information regarding how it was restructured; hence, what went to were?
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