Can someone give me an aerial view description of the differences between the following standards, with respect to wind? Are there any real differences?
-BS6399 Part-2
-ANSI/ASCE 7-05
-UBC'91 & '97
-IBC 2003
I'm looking for information as it relates to gas process equipment and related...
My main concern is being able to help my customer tell his piping engineer what the allowables are for the nozzles. Normally, our policy is to say "zero" allowable loads on our nozzles - the piping must be fully supported with flex connections to prevent loading on our nozzles. Unfortunately...
I'm looking for a method to determine the allowable external forces & moments for nozzles on flat-sided vessels analogous to the methos for cylindrical vessels in the Pressure Vessel Handbook (Megyesy) [13th Ed., pp 153-158].
I considered using the Megyesy cylinder method, driving the vessel...
