Pressure Vessel and Piping system Design
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Pressure Vessel and Piping system Design Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Pressure Vessel and Piping system Design (subject code 3730909) as prescribed for M(D · Semester 3 divides the course into 4 units, covering 32 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3730909)Unit 1 Stresses in Vessels
- General theory of membrane stresses in vessel under internal pressure and its application to shells (cylindrical
- conical and spherical) and end closures
- Bending of circular plates and determination of stresses in simply supported and clamped circular plate
- Thermal stresses
- Stress concentration in plate having circular hole due to bi-axial loading
- excessive elastic deformation
- plastic instability
- rupture and creep
- Theory of reinforced opening and reinforcement limits
Unit 2 Design of Vessels using Codes
- Introduction to ASME cods for pressure vessel design
- Pressure vessel and related components’ design using ASME codes
- Supports for short vertical vessels
- stress concentration at a variable thickness transition section in a cylindrical vessel
- Design of nozzles
- Design of flanges
Unit 3 Supports for vertical & horizontal vessels
- Design of base plate and support lugs
- Types of anchor bolt
- its material and allowable stresses
- Design of saddle supports
Unit 4 Other Design Considerations
- Buckling phenomenon
- Elastic Buckling of circular ring and cylinders under external pressure
- collapse of thick walled cylinders or tubes under external pressure
- Effect of supports on Elastic Buckling of Cylinders
- Design of circumferential stiffeners
- Buckling under combined External pressure and axial Loading
- high pressure
- high temperature
- corrosion, and other hostile environments
- high strength
- lightweight pressure vessels
- vessels 09 Subject Code: 3730909 w.e.f
- AY 2018-19 * Use of related standards / codes during Exam is permitted
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