Thanks to ccw. I am not welding but maching a solid piece to allow better strength and less chance for corrosion attacking the weld area. I am looking into the tapered ledge, but have to be careful to have a large enough washer that will not split due to the horizontal forces (from the wedge...
I have a 10,000 to 100,000 lb of weight (thrust) that is subject to changing tension loads on the tubing string (maybe 27000 lb going back and forth to 33000 lb every 6 sec to create over 1 million cycles every 2 months). The, tubing string is attached to a larger diameter hollow shaft or tubing...
Gas is assumed to come from reservoirs in a saturated state of water (that is, water is in a vapor form and the gas contains water molecules). Water content is normally removed or reduced substantially (and required in many pipeline tranport contracts to around 7 lb H20/mcf). Gas holds more...
