I am looking for any past experiences that members may have on this subject.
I have a 64 meter diameter high temperature (220C) petroleum storage tank built in 1997 that has suffered extensive buckling of the single fillet lap welded bottom plates to such a degree that one of these lap joints...
Is the weld on a 2:1 SE cover on a manway for an ASME VIII Div 1 vessel covered by the Code.
We have several large stamped vessels to be installed in a nuclear waste clean up plant, that after shop hydro and National Board stamping are delivered with a tacked welded 2:1 SE head as a manway...
Does anyone have direct experience of designing and operating 3 or 4 bolt large diameter flanges (up to 50 inches) especially with respect to determination of flange leakage?
These flanges are on vessels in radioactive service and mate to rotating equipment which must be removed by remote...
