Thanks folks, this is as I suspected. The pipe analysis has been provided by our customer for an exitsting piece of pipework to be fitted between new vessel equipment
Part of the issue is a relatively large diameter, yet short length of pipe, giving a limited degree of flexibility. It appears...
I have a vessel which, due to location and service has very high nozzle loadings, particluarly moment loading, presenting problems with allowable stresses being exceeded.
We are limited in the space available to include repads and do not want to increase the shell/nozzle thicknesses - I...
