One of the fun aspects of working with vessels is that there seems to be something new every week. Particularly when you do a lot of work with old equipment. Got a new one today: I'm looking at a 1960 vintage drawing of a Section VIII vessel by CF Braun. The nozzle schedule lists the usual...
I'm hoping to buy tickets today for a trip to Brisbane the week of 10 January. Just 4 days on the ground. I'll probably arrive in Sydney Tuesday morning and swing by my company's facility there for a couple of hours prior to heading back to the airport for the connection to Brisbane. Then three...
Well, I figured I'd start with a post about the scope of this new forum. Until now most tank questions have been posted on the API Code Issues forum. That can be a bit restrictive if tanks are designed and fabricated to non-API standards, so as I see it the relationship between this forum and...
If you don't want to or can't wait for IHS to publish a code case, you can get recently approved but not yet published VIII code cases here: http://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/CommitteePages.cfm?Committee=N20110000&CommitteeCodeCases=yes
For other sections, go here...
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I poked around my texts and googled a bit but couldn't find a reference for the yield strength of lead at ambient temperature. I won't be using this value for any analysis, but for an analogy - as in "it has about the same strength as lead" - so a ballpark figure would be ok. If there...
I'm looking at a drawing for a vessel built to the 1980 VIII-1 which has a note that the stiffening rings were designed in accordance with Code Case 1290 (the 9 is blurry - could be another number). I've searched our archives and IHS but wasn't able to find it. Anyone have a copy or know...
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This is my first post in this forum (I'm active in several other eng-tips forums) so just for background, I've been working with Cosmos for well over 10 years (using the Geostar pre/post processor) and have recently started using SW.
I'm a bit perplexed by a model that I'm working...
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There is another thread on this board dealing with whether or not to use normalized plate for ammonia service, and some questions were raised as to what constitutes "Lethal Service." I thought that issue was worth its own thread. My background is in mechanical engineering, not...
