Guidebook for the Design of ASME Section VIII Pressure Vessels - Hardcover

Farr, James R.; Jawad, Maan H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791800555 ISBN 13: 9780791800553

Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers,U.S., 1998

Synopsis

This is a fully revised and updated fourth edition of a classic guidebook. Whether you are a beginning design engineer or an experienced engineering manager developing a mechanical integrity program, this updated volume gives you a thorough examination and review of the requirements applicable to the design, materials selection, fabrication, inspection, and testing of pressure vessels and their components. ""Guidebook for Design of ASME Section VIII Pressure Vessels"" provides you with a review of the background issues, reference materials, technology, and techniques necessary for the safe, reliable, cost-efficient function of pressure vessels in the petrochemical, paper, power, and other industries. Solved examples throughout the volume illustrate the application of various equations given in ""Section VIII"".

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Synopsis

Elucidates the application of the design rules to various components. Includes solved examples illustrating the application of various equations in the ASME Section VIII Code. Also provides all design requirements of specific components. Topics include cylindrical shells; spherical shells, heads, and transition sections; flat plates, covers, and fl

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Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Edition details

• Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers,U.S.
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0791800555
• ISBN 13: 9780791800553
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316
• Editor: Farr James R., Jawad Maan H.