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ASME VIII-1 Opening Design
The pad flange is treated just like any of your other pad flanges, and evaluated separately of the pipe. The pipe is treated just like any other pipe that's welded to an RFSO flange. inside weld = pipe thickness outside weld = 1.4 pipe thickness There's nothing here our of the ordinary. It's...- DKTim
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- Forum: Boiler and Pressure Vessel engineering
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Software validation
Perhaps there's some miscommunication. Are you sure they want to validate excel at a software, and not just the custom excel sheet that you use to perform analysis? If it's the latter, that's easy. There's lots of resources on how to do that. Generally it requires that you show your work &...- DKTim
- Post #6
- Forum: ASME (mechanical) Code Issues
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Welding of A193 B7 material
gwalkerb is correct. Nowhere in the code does it say you can't, but nowhere in the code does it say HOW you can. First, understand that SA193 B7 is a pressure vessel/piping specification. We need to dig deeper to find the answer. How does SA 193 B7 come to existence? it starts are AISI 4140...- DKTim
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- Forum: ASME (mechanical) Code Issues
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Tapping via cold forming of a pressure vessel female threads
To my knowledge the manufacturing method of threads is not addressed in ASME BPVC. The codebook uses the term "tapped" threads. When in reality we have many new technologies to manufacture threads: Rigid tapping & thread cutting (material is removed/cut) Thread milling (material is removed...- DKTim
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- Forum: ASME (mechanical) Code Issues
