ASCE 7-10 for pressure vessel: a guide? 1

[ElCidCampeador]

Hi,

I'm looking for a guide for verifying ASME VIII Div.1 pressure vessels acc. to ASCE 7-10. Do you know anything, links or light books? What's the procedure? Thanks

 

[XL83NL]

Below books all cover wind design, mostly speciifc to ASCE, in some way or another:
[li]Farr, Jawad - Guidebook for the Design of ASME Section VIII Pressure Vessels
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[li]Megyesy - Pressure Vessel Handbook[/li]
[li]Moss - Pressure Vessel Design Manual[/li]
[li]ASME PTB-4 - ASME Section VIII-Division 1 Example Problem Manual [/li]
And finally, since this topic has been discussed quite often, the search function of eng-tips will provide valuable results.

 

[ElCidCampeador]

ASME PTB-4? What example? I don't find it. thanks

 

[XL83NL]

If you click the link I provided, you will directed to the ASME website where you can purchase a copy of PTB-4. It's a manual (created by ASME) which contains a few worked out solutions for typical pressure vessel problems. Some examples in the manual are for pressure vessels that need to consider wind load in their design, which is why I thought this may be of interest for you.

 

[ElCidCampeador]

If you click the link I provided, you will directed to the ASME website where you can purchase a copy of PTB-4. It's a manual (created by ASME) which contains a few worked out solutions for typical pressure vessel problems. Some examples in the manual are for pressure vessels that need to consider wind load in their design, which is why I thought this may be of interest for you.

I have it! I'm searching but I don't find the example...

 

[XL83NL]

Just Crtl+F on wind or ASCE and you'll see some results in PTB-4. Not sure if they're of any help to your situation.

 

[AWDMIKE]

We're up to ASCE 7-16 now, however, check your building codes since some of them still make reference to ASCE 7-10. The following documents may be of assistance:

ASCE 41140-2011 Guidelines for Seismic Evaluation and Design of Petrochemical Facilities
ASCE 41180-2011 Wind Loads for Petrochemical and Other Industrial Facilities

While you didn't ask about anchor bolts, it's been my experience that mechanical engineers performing anchor bolt design often overlook several things outlined in ACI 318 Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete where you have concrete foundations, specifically, anchor and anchor chair requirements in higher seismic zones. Here is a reference which may help there:

ASCE 41258-2013 Anchorage Design for Petrochemical Facilities

Hope this helps.

 

[JStephen]

I don't know that there's a good answer there.
For vessels, you need to use about 1/20 or less of the ASCE 7. The catch is figuring out which 1/20 of it to use. If they would publish a special volume that deleted everything related only to buildings, that would help tremendously.
If you've never been involved in seismic design, I'd suggest an ASCE seminar that is fairly helpful- "Earthquake-Induced Ground Motions (61062018)"
And another one that's a little bit more specific: "Designing Nonbuilding Structures Using ASCE/SEI 7-16 (61052018)"
Note that you may save enough on the seminar cost to pay for an ASCE membership for the year. And if you're a PE, that'll count towards your continuing education.
Lastly, note that ASCE 7 gives you the design loads, but not the analysis to account for those loads, so you may only be halfway there when you get done with ASCE 7.