Dear community members,
After having searched in several books and on the internet for a good reference, I must conclude that a good description to assess measured vibrations is difficult to find.
Suppose the goal is to perform a pipe vibration measurement and subsequent assessment. The...
When I have a tubesheet in a boiler, it will be subject to both pressure loads and thermal loads. Pressure loads are well covereed in Section I by applying rules for flat plates and ligaments. However, there don't seem rules to cover thermal loads on the tubesheet.
Consider the following very...
When using ASME B&PV Section I, some topics are not in Part General, but in one of the specific parts like PFT (firetube boilers) or PWT (watertube boilers). For example:
(*) external pressure is covered by Part PFT (PFT-50 covers some rules for cylinders (tubes) under external pressure). When...
