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    ASME Section VIII Pressure Vessel - Transportation Analysis

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    This document summarizes an analysis of a large shell-and-tube heat exchanger to ensure it would meet ASME Section VIII requirements during transportation. The pressure vessel was modeled with plate and beam elements and supported with a schnabel at one end and saddle at the other. A static stress analysis was performed under transportation conditions and the results were checked against ASME allowables for membrane and surface stresses. This analysis demonstrated the vessel could be transported safely with the additional weight of insulation installed without any design changes needed.

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    This document summarizes an analysis of a large shell-and-tube heat exchanger to ensure it would meet ASME Section VIII requirements during transportation. The pressure vessel was modeled with plate and beam elements and supported with a schnabel at one end and saddle at the other. A static stress analysis was performed under transportation conditions and the results were checked against ASME allowables for membrane and surface stresses. This analysis demonstrated the vessel could be transported safely with the additional weight of insulation installed without any design changes needed.

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    This document summarizes an analysis of a large shell-and-tube heat exchanger to ensure it would meet ASME Section VIII requirements during transportation. The pressure vessel was modeled with plate and beam elements and supported with a schnabel at one end and saddle at the other. A static stress analysis was performed under transportation conditions and the results were checked against ASME allowables for membrane and surface stresses. This analysis demonstrated the vessel could be transported safely with the additional weight of insulation installed without any design changes needed.

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    ASME Section VIII Pressure Vessel - Transportation Analysis

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    This document summarizes an analysis of a large shell-and-tube heat exchanger to ensure it would meet ASME Section VIII requirements during transportation. The pressure vessel was modeled with plate and beam elements and supported with a schnabel at one end and saddle at the other. A static stress analysis was performed under transportation conditions and the results were checked against ASME allowables for membrane and surface stresses. This analysis demonstrated the vessel could be transported safely with the additional weight of insulation installed without any design changes needed.

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    The document discusses performing a static stress analysis on a large shell-and-tube heat exchanger to ensure it meets ASME Section VIII requirements during transportation with additional insulation weight.

    A static stress analysis was performed to check if the stresses in the pressure vessel exceeded the allowables specified in ASME Section VIII during transportation.

    The pressure vessel was supported at one end by a schnabel and at the other end by a saddle during transportation, as modeled in the finite element analysis.

    ASME Section VIII Pressure Vessel Case Study: ASME BPVC

    Transportation Analysis

    Keywords: Femap, NX Nastran, ASME, Section VIII, Div. 2, code analysis, membrane stress, pressure
    vessel, heat exchanger, evaporator, condenser, schnabel, saddle supports, nozzle, repad, stainless
    steel, dead weight loading, transportation analysis, static analysis, stress analysis.

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    Caption: ASME Section VIII Pressure Vessel - Transportation Analysis.

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    ASME Section VIII Pressure Vessel Case Study: ASME BPVC
    Transportation Analysis

    Case Study Section: Stress and Deflection

    ASME Section VIII, Division 2 Pressure Vessel - Transportation Analysis


    Analysis Type: Static, Stress, ASME Section VIII Div. 2

    The design of ASME Section VIII pressure vessels is generally guided by the code and FEA is not always
    necessary. However, with non-standard geometry, multiple construction materials and additional
    weight added after fabrication, analysis is frequently used to solve problems not addressed in the
    ASME code.

    The pressure vessel in this analysis was a large shell-and-tube heat exchanger analyzed under
    transportation conditions. The heat exchanger was idealized with a combination of plate and beam
    elements as shown in Figure 1. One end of the vessel was supported with a schnabel and the other
    end was supported with a saddle (see Figures 2 and 3).

    Once the static stress analysis was performed, the results were interrogated to ensure that the
    stresses did not exceed the ASME allowables (PL, PM for membrane stress and PL+PB+Q for surface
    stress).

    This analysis was used to demonstrate that the vessel, with the additional weight of insulation, would
    meet the ASME Section VIII requirements during transportation with no design modifications.

    Figure 1: The tubes of this shell-and-tube heat exchanger were modeled with beam elements.

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    ASME Section VIII Pressure Vessel Case Study: ASME BPVC
    Transportation Analysis

    Figure 2: Examples of pressure vessels in transportation. The upper images shows a vessel attached
    to a schnabel train car. The vessel in the lower image is mounted in saddle supports atop multiple
    flatbed trailers.

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    ASME Section VIII Pressure Vessel Case Study: ASME BPVC
    Transportation Analysis

    Figure 3: The schnabel and saddle support were idealized in the FE model with Single Point
    Constraints (SPCs) and Rigid Body Elements (RBEs).

    Figure 4: The vessel is shown with stress contours and extreme exaggerated deformation. The un-
    deformed model is shown in transparent gray.

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