High Pressure Vessels

High Pressure Vessels is the only book to present timely information on high pressure vessel design for student engineers, mechanical and chemical engineers who design and build these vessels, and for chemical engineers, plant engineers and facilities managers who use them. It concentrates on design issues, giving the reader comprehensive coverage of the design aspects of the ASME High Pressure System Standard and the forthcoming ASME High Pressure Vessel Code. Coverage of the safety requirements of these new standards is included, as well as offering the reader examples and original data, a glossary of terms, SI conversions, and lists of references.

1. High Pressure Vessels. - 1. 1 Introduction. - 1. 2 Economic Considerations and Cost Reduction. - 1. 3 Stress Significance. - 1. 4 Factors of Safety and Their Optimum Value. - 2. Stresses and Deflection. - 2. 1 Thin-Walled Vessels. - 2. 2 Stresses in a Circular Ring, Cylinder, Sphere, and Submersibles. - 2. 3 Poisson s Ratio. - 2. 4 Dilation of Pressure Vessels. - 2. 5 Intersecting Spheres. - 2. 6 General Theory of Membrane Stresses in Vessels Under Internal Pressure. - 2. 7 Torus Under Internal Pressure. - 2. 8 Thick Cylinder and Thick Sphere. - 2. 9 Shrink-Fit Stresses in Builtup Cylinders. - 2. 10 Autofrettage of Thick Cylinders. - 2. 11 Thermal Stresses Due to Temperature Transients. - Problems. - References. - 3. Theories of Material Failure. - 3. 1 Materials and Their Environment. - 3. 2 Material Tensile Tests. - 3. 3 Structure of Steel and Leuder s Lines. - 3. 4 Fracture Types. - 3. 5 Toughness of Materials. - 3. 6 Theories of Failure. - 3. 7 Brittle Fracture. Design Methodology. - References. - 4. Cyclic Service Influence. - 4. 1 Safety Factors History and Significance. - 4. 2 Endurance Limit Philosophy. - 4. 3 ASME Code-Type Fatigue Curves. - 4. 4 Problems with Fatigue Analysis. - 4. 5 Toughness, Quantifying It, and Temperature Influence. - 4. 6 Material Quality and Crack Initiation. - 4. 7 Crack Growth versus Stress. - 4. 8 Critical Crack Size and Crack Arrest. - 4. 9 Environmental Effects. - 4. 10 Cumulative Damage. - References. - 5. Specific Design and Construction. - 5. 1 Special High Pressure Considerations. - 5. 2 High Pressure Vessel Design Construction Principles. - 5. 3 High Pressure Vessel Closures. - 5. 4 Stress Concentration Effects. - 5. 5 Attachment and Connection Techniques. - References. - 6. Hazards and Safety. - 6. 1 General. - 6. 2 Calculating the Estimated Confined Energy. - 6. 3 Barrier Sizing. - 6. 4 An Alternative. - 6. 5Basis for Establishing an Examination Period. - 6. 6 Creating an Examination Program. - 6. 7 Evaluation and Recordkeeping. - References. - 7. Analysis Techniques. - 7. 1 Traditional Methods. - 7. 2 Finite Element Studies. - 7. 3 Iterative Concepts.