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FEA of a Tank with a Hole
Finite Element Analysis (FEA) was carried out on client's request to check stresses and strains generated in a 30m Diameter 10m High Carbon Steel tank As the stresses and strains for a 3m cut was neglegible, a further study was conducted to evaluate stresses and...
FEA of Pressure Vessel Nozzle – Third Pass
This post is written after considering inputs from several helpful people around the world on linkedin and eng-tips forums. This is also to help someone who has started new with Salome and Code_Aster to model the geometry, Hexahedral mesh it and perform FEA using...
FEA of Pressure Vessel Nozzle – Zeroth Pass
This is the second round of FEA of Pressure Vessel Nozzle but should have been done before my previous post, so I have called it Zeroth Pass. When i posted my FEA results that I obtained, I was asked to first carry out simple shell FEA of Pressure with Brick element....
Piping Abbreviations
Here is the compiled list of Piping Abbreviations. This is not an exhaustive list and is updated regularly. ASME: American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASTM: American Society for Testing and Materials AWS: American Welding Society AWWA: American Water Works...
Design Pressure vs Max Allowable Working Pressure
There is always confusion when a Piping engineer talks to a Mechanical engineer about the Pressure to which piping is to be designed. Piping engineers are trained to design piping to ASME B31.1, B31.3 which guides the engineer to use Design Pressure, where as ASME...
PCF file import to Caesar II
Recently for a project we were having problems with Isogen to generate Piping Isometric but it was not working well. This was required for me to carryout Pipe Stress Analysis based on the information in Stress Isometrics. I searched CaesarII help and found out that...
Stress Analysis Checklist
Stress Analysis forms integral part of Pipe Design. A checklist spreadsheet is provided to ease the process of deciding which pipes to stress analyze. Engineering judgement should be made while using this spreadsheet To download the spreadsheet right-click the button...
Flexibility factors of FRP Tank Nozzles
Q. How to determine stress in FRP tank due to nozzle load? A. Refer to BS4994 - Design and construction of vessels and tanks in reinforced plastic
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