Hi guys,
According to ASME BPVC Section VIII Div. 2, how would you classify the vessel thermal expansion effects on the skirt? Is it a primary loading applied on the skirt or a secondary loading?
Thanks.
Thanks for your answer! Although, I believe Annex 5.B is clear when it says that one should use the stress component histograms, and not the loading history. Thus, all the other doubts are still valid. Could someone please help me with them?!
Hi guys,
I'm willing to understand better about a ratcheting assessment analysis of a pressure vessel. I'm assuming that ratcheting assessment is a cyclic analysis, and if there are thermal and/or mechanical transient loads, then the analysis becomes necessarily time-dependent.
After reading...