Re: Wear Plate design

From: <Christopher>
Date: Thu May 31 2001 - 09:47:00 EDT

>Can anyone tell me how to design / select the thickness of a wear plate for
>the saddle of a horizontal vessel? What formula should I use and what
>should I considered?

There's a classic analysis for saddles and wear plates by L. P. Zick. It's in a lot of texts and collections of papers and I've seen it in Megeyesy's Pressure Vessel Handbook.

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