Colleagues,
I'm conducting a straw poll on general good practice in ordering bolts for pressure vessels (not a question on what is mandatory due to international codes).
Is it satisfactory to use flange bolting which only has a certificate of conformity (2.2) rather than a mill cert (3.1)? I...
Taylor Forge's 'Modern Flange Design' used to have a formula to find the minimum gasket width which was based on the idea that gaskets would crush as a stress equivalent to twice the seating stress 'y' (I'm doing this from memory!). If I apply it to large medium pressure heat exchanger girth...
