Max allowable Flange Loads ASME VIII Div 2

Max allowable Flange Loads ASME VIII Div 2

Everyone that I know of uses Charts for preliminary estimation.  These charts can be for Pipe Thickness, Weight of Pipe, Allowable Loads and so on. Recently I did a project in which the flange design was carried out based on ASME Section VIII Division 2.  As Caesar II...
FEA of a Tank with a Hole

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 – Zeroth Pass

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

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...