Does anyone know of any good references for the design of above ground rectangular steel tanks? I am mainly looking for wall thickness and reinforcement calculations for the walls of the tank.
Does anybody have a good reference for the design of thick walled expansion joints for a large diameter vertical heat exchanger? I am using APV to design the heat exchanger and I know I need an expansion joint, but part UHX in the code book is not very helpful as far as the design is concerned...
this particular tank will be used in the chemical industry. no internal pressure, but it needs to be rated for full vacuum and there is no room for structural stiffening rings under the outer sheathing, so the shell would have to be thick since it is about 14 feet long. using dimple jacket would...
we have done our own FEA that gives us an effective thickness of the dimple jacket. we want to take that effective thickness and subtract it from the calculated required thickness of the shell due to external pressure.
