Pressure Vessel and Piping system Design
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The official GTU curriculum for Pressure Vessel and Piping system Design (subject code 2740803) as prescribed for M(D · Semester 4 divides the course into 7 units, covering 51 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 (2740803)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
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 resistant to external high pressures found in undersea exploration
- offshore drilling, and mineral mining
Unit 5 Piping Analysis
- Flow diagram
- Piping layout and piping stress analysis
- Flexibility factor and stress intensification factor
- Design of piping system as per B31.1 piping code
- Piping components: bends
- bellows and valves
- Types of piping supports and their behaviour
- Introduction to piping Codes and Standards
- References Books: 1
- Harvey J F, Pressure vessel design CBS publication 2
- D, ‘Process equipment design’
- Wiley Eastern Ltd.
- ASME Pressure Vessel and Boiler code
- Section VIII Div 1, 2, and 3. 4
- American standard code for pressure piping
- Henry H Bednar
- Pressure vessel Design Hand book
- CBS publishers and distributors
Unit 6 Stanley M Wales, Chemical Process equipment, selection and design, Butterworths, series in
- Chemical Engineering
Unit 7 J. Phillip Ellenberger Pressure Vessels
- ASME Code Simplified
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