'Pressure Vessel Design' is a course offered in the B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering program at School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Unit 1
Introduction to Pressure Vessels, Design Philosophy, Structural Integrity - Failure modes and theories - Working loads and allowable stresses - Fatigue, fracture and buckling.
Stress categorization - Primary, secondary and peak.
Design of Cylindrical Shells - ASME equations - Thin shell equations - Thick shell equations - Buckling of cylindrical shells.
Unit 2
End Closures - ASME equations for various types of heads – Hemispherical, flat, ellipsoidal, torispherical, and conical heads.
Discontinuity Stresses - Discontinuity stresses - Beams on elastic foundation, Cutouts and Reinforcements – Stress concentrations around a hole – Reinforcements.
Fatigue Assessment - Exemption from fatigue analysis - S-N curves - Design curves - Cumulative damage - Fatigue evaluation.
Unit 3
Bolted Flanges - RF and FF flanges - Gasket loading behavior - Application of ASME equations for flange analysis and bolt design.
Design of Supports - Lug support - Support skirts - Saddle support.
- Harvey J. F. - ‘Theory and Design of Pressure Vessels’ - Van Nostrand - 1991
- Chattopadhyaya S. - ‘Pressure Vessels - Design and Practice’ - CRC Press - 2005
- Brownell and Young -Process Equipment Design’ - Wiley Publishing Ltd. - 1959
- Ellenberger P. - ‘Pressure Vessels: ASME Code Simplified’ - McGraw Hill Company - 2004 - 8th Edition
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