Pressure Vessel Handbook

[Shmulik]

Hi all,
May anyone out there is familiar with the "Pressure Vessel Handbook" by Eugene F. Megyesy ?
I would appreciate those who are willing to share their impression.

Best regards,
Shmulik

 

[GenB]

Is small and expensive. I wish it addressd a little more than Code but design wise. but that how engs maketheir money. is good refference there is no question.
ER

 

[athomas236]

There is a UK version written by a colleague called Cliff Mathews, definitely worth a look.

athomas236

ps not on commissiom

 

[LSThill]

Shmulik (Mechanical)

RE: Pressure Vessel HandBood and other Reference BIBLIOGRAPHY: YOU WILL NEED ALL OF THE BELOW REFERENCE AN THE MORE.

http://www.codeware.com/bibliography.html

The following is a selected list of references used
by: COMPRESS PRESSURE VESSEL SOFTWARE.

API RP 510, Second Edition
"Inspection, Rating and Repair of Pressure Vessels in Petroleum Refinery Ser-vice"
American Petroleum Institute
Division of Refining
1271 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
September 1970

ASCE 7-88 (Formerly ANSI A58.1)
"Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures"
American Society of Civil Engineers
345 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017-2398

ASCE 7-93 (Revision of ANSI/ASCE 7-88)
"Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures"
American Society of Civil Engineers
345 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017-2398

ASME Section VIII Division 1
"Rules for Construction of Pressure Vessels"
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
345 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017

ASME/ANSI B16.5-1988 Pipe Flanges and Flanged Fittings
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
345 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017
American National Standard, 1988

ANSI/ASME B36.10M/1985 Welded and Seamless Wrought Steel Pipe
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
345 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017
American National Standard, 1985

ASME B16.47 - 1990 Large Diameter Steel Flanges
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
345 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017
American National Standard, 1990

Henry H. Bednar, P.E.
Pressure Vessel Design Handbook, Second Edition
Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc.
115 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
COMPRESS uses the method presented in Bednar, Chapter 8.6 for calculating the discontinuity stress at cone to cylinder junctures. This method is based on Ref. 26-3 (below).

E.O. Bergman
"The Design of Vertical Pressure Vessels Subjected to Applied Forces"
Paper No. 54 - A-104
ASME Transactions, 1955
Alhambra, California

Adolf E. Blach & Sun Liguo
"Bolted Flanged Connections With Longitudinal Bending Moments: Experimen-tal Results"
Power Plant Equipment Design: Bolted Joints, Pumps, Valves, Pipe and Duct Supports
PVP-Vol. 255, ASME 1993
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
345 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017

H.C. Boardman
Pressure Vessel and Piping Design, Collected Papers
"Stresses at Junction of Cone and Cylinder in Tanks with Cone Bottoms or Ends"
ASME, New York, NY, 1960

L.E. Brownell and E.H. Young
Process Equipment Design
John Wiley & Sons
605 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10158-0012
Chapter 10 of Brownell & Young is used as the basis for designing vessel base rings, anchor bolts etc.

Bulletin 107, March 1979 revision
"Local Stresses in Spherical and Cylindrical Shells Due to External Loadings"
Welding Research Council
345 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017
The WRC Bulletin 107 paper is used to calculate the stresses due to external loadings on shell attachments. Note that the March 1979 revision is used. The March 1979 revision contains a number of changes which will generally produce a more conservative analysis when compared with previous WRC107 revisions.

Bulletin 502, Edition VII
"Modern Flange Design"
G+W Taylor-Bonney Division
P.O. Box 999
Southfield, Michigan 48037

C.E. Freese
Transactions of the ASME
"Vibration of Vertical Pressure Vessels"
February, 1959
This paper by C.E. Freese provides the basis for calculating the deflection and fundamental period of vibration for vertical vessels and towers.
K.R. Wichman, A.G. Hopper and J.L. Mershion

Maan H. Jawad & James R. Farr
Structural Analysis & Design Of Process Equipment, Second Edition
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
605 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10158-0012
The method used by COMPRESS to calculate the combined effect of external pressure plus bending moments is taken from Chapter 16.6 of this text.
The COMPRESS calculation procedure for sizing anchor bolts and base rings is based on the method presented in Chapter 12.2 of this text.

K. C. Karamchandani, N. K. Gupta, J. Pattabiraman
"Evaluation of Percent Critical Damping of Process Towers"
Hydrocarbon Processing, May 1982

Manual of Steel Construction Allowable Stress Design
Ninth Edition
American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc.
1 East Wacker Drive, Suite 3100
Chicago, Illinois 60601

Dennis R. Moss
Pressure Vessel Design Manual, Third Edition
Gulf Publishing Company
P.O. Box 2608
Houston, TX 77252-2608
2003

E. F. Megysey
Pressure Vessel Handbook
Pressure Vessel Handbook Publishing Inc.
P.O. Box 35365
Tulsa, OK 74153

National Building Code of Canada 1990
First Revisions and Errata
Associate Committee on the National Building Code
National Research Council of Canada
Ottawa
January 1991

Supplement to the National Building Code of Canada 1990
Associate Committee on the National Building Code
National Research Council of Canada
Ottawa
January 1991

P. Sachs
"Wind Forces in Engineering "
Pergamon Press
New York, 1972


Ong Lin Seng
"Effectiveness of Wear Plate at the Saddle Support"
ASME Transactions, Vol. 114, 1992
Nanyang Technological University,
School of Mechanical and Production Engineering,
Singapore


Uniform Building Code 1994, Volume 2
"Structural Engineering Design Provisions"
International Conference of Building Officials
5360 Workman Mill Road
Whittier, CA 90601 - 2298

Uniform Building Code 1991
International Conference of Building Officials
5360 South Workman Mill Road
Whittier, CA 90601

Dwight F. Windenburg and Charles Trilling
"Collapse by Instability of Thin Cylindrical Shells Under External Pressure"
Washington, D.C.

L.P. Zick
The Welding Research Supplement, 1971
"Stresses in Large Horizontal Cylindrical Pressure Vessels on two Saddle Sup-ports"

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[DSB123]

Smulik,
The Megyesey book is a very good reference for ASME but care is needed as from what I remember there are still a few typo's in there.