Re: Nozzle Flexibility factors and stiffnesses

From: <narendra_roy>
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 13:37:00 EDT


WRC 107/ WRC 297 relate to bulletins/ technical report published by Welding Research Council. These special reports include analysis for stresses near and arround the joint of nozzle to shell or head. It is termed as local load/ stress analysis. The loads are forces , moments acting at the joint and cause stresses which are much more than the meberane stresses but they are acceptable within 1.5 and 3 times the tensitle memberane allowable stresses as they are self limited and are not distributed through out the shell, head of nozzle pip[e wall thickness. these WRC procedures are well acceptable worldwide ( both in US and European and Asian countries, and adopted by the concerned national standards.
FEPipe, WinNozl softwares deal on these reports and provide quick and easy anlysis of local load stresses.Otherwise one has to do the manual calculations which are very time consuming. If interested I may provide you more information, and lead you to get a view of the WRC Buletins for better understanding.
NK Roy

Received on Wed Jul 23 13:37:00 2003

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