Wall thickness designs

Good design practices to ensure that the mechanical design of the equipment is suited to normal operation, startup, shutdown, and emergency conditions (for example, ensuring that vessel wall thickness, design temperature and pressure, corrosion allowance, etc., adhere to industry or national codes and standards) ... 

Corrosion is generally considered to be in one of two forms uniform or localized. Uniform corrosion occurs evenly on all surface areas of a pressure vessel. Such corrosion occurring at slow rates is quite typical and can be planned for by increasing the original wall thickness design. For vessel systems with a predictable corrosion rate, allowances can be calculated for vessel life spans of 2-20 yr. ... 

However, this probe design is dedicated to a special turbine blade type and a special inspection task on this blade. But similar probe types and probe holders can be provided also for other engine types and for other inspection tasks like wall thickness measurement and crack detection in other zones of a blade. 

Effect of Uncertainties in Thermal Design Parameters. The parameters that are used ia the basic siting calculations of a heat exchanger iaclude heat-transfer coefficients tube dimensions, eg, tube diameter and wall thickness and physical properties, eg, thermal conductivity, density, viscosity, and specific heat. Nominal or mean values of these parameters are used ia the basic siting calculations. In reaUty, there are uncertainties ia these nominal values. For example, heat-transfer correlations from which one computes convective heat-transfer coefficients have data spreads around the mean values. Because heat-transfer tubes caimot be produced ia precise dimensions, tube wall thickness varies over a range of the mean value. In addition, the thermal conductivity of tube wall material cannot be measured exactiy, a dding to the uncertainty ia the design and performance calculations. 

The values of CJs are experimentally determined for all uncertain parameters. The larger the value of O, the larger the data spread, and the greater the level of uncertainty. This effect of data spread must be incorporated into the design of a heat exchanger. For example, consider the convective heat-transfer coefficient, where the probabiUty of the tme value of h falling below the mean value h is of concern. Or consider the effect of tube wall thickness, /, where a value of /greater than the mean value /is of concern. 

Design of thick-walled cylinders, Design of removable closures, Manufacture of pressure vessels. Manufacture of tubing. 

Pipe-Wall Thickness. Once the design pressure and temperature have been established and the pipe material and size selected, the wall thickness is calculated using the appropriate section of the code. In rare cases, a thin pipe must be made thicker to withstand handling. Occasionally the thickness is affected by external loads or vibrations. All codes prescribe essentially the same design formula for metallic hoUow circular cylinders under internal pressure ... 

Pipe and Tubing. A typical die for extmding tubular products is shown in Figure 4. It is an in-line design, ie, the center of the extmded pipe is concentric with the extmder barrel. The extmdate is formed into a tube by the male and female die parts. The male die part is supported in the center by a spider mandrel. Melt flows around legs of the mandrel and meets on the downstream side. The position of the female die part can be adjusted with bolts adjustment is requited to obtain a tube with a uniform wall thickness. 

Software packages are commercially available for simulation of hydrauhc transients. These may be used to analyze piping systems to reveal unsatisfactoi y behavior, and they aUow the assessment of design changes such as increases in pipe-wall thickness, changes in valve actuation, and addition of check valves, surge tanks, and pulsation dampeners. 

Pressure Design of Metalhc Components Wall Thickness. 10-103... 

Branch Welds These welds eliminate the purchase of tees and require no more weld metal than tees (Fig. 10-127). If the branch approaches the size of the run, careful end preparation of the branch pipe is required and the run pipe is weakened by the branch weld. See subsection Pressure Design of Metallic Components Wall Thickness for rules for reinforcement. Reinforcing pads and fittings are commercially available. Use of the fittings facilitates visual inspection of the branch weld. See subsection Welding, Brazing, or Soldering for rules for welded joints. 

A cylindrical tube in a chemical plant is subjected to an excess internal pressure of 6 MN m , which leads to a circumferential stress in the tube wall. The tube wall is required to withstand this stress at a temperature of 510°C for 9 years. A designer has specified tubes of 40 mm bore and 2 mm wall thickness made from a stainless alloy of iron with 15% by weight of chromium. The manufacturer s specification for this alloy gives the following information ... 

For each material listed in the following table, calculate the minimum mass and wall thickness of the pressure hull of Problem 27.1 for both failure mechanisms at the design pressure. 

Abrupt changes of section cause poor flow and differential shrinkage, giving sink marks (Fig. 28.11 - you can find them on the surface of many small polymer parts), distortion, and internal stress which can lead to cracks or voids. The way out is to design in the way illustrated in Fig. 28.12. Ribs, which are often needed to stiffen polymer parts, should have a thickness of no more than two-thirds of the wall thickness, and a height no more than three times the wall thickness. Corners are profiled to give a uniform section round the corner. 

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