Thanks for the reply! Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying and correct me if I'm wrong but aren't the stresses mentioned in 5-A.4.2 (σij,in and σij,out) simply just the stress tensors obtained from the inside surface and outside surface of the shell and not the principal stresses? So...
I'm a starting junior engineer and fairly new to working with this ASME code, so I wanted to get some clarifications regarding doing the elastic stress analysis with ansys. I'm currently doing the evaluation of the stresses for my linear model according to section 5.2.2 in ASME Sec VIII, Div 2...
