Guidebook for the design of ASME section VIII pressure vessels
Title:
Guidebook for the design of ASME section VIII pressure vessels
Author:
Farr, James R.
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Edition:
3rd ed.
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. (ASME, Three Park Avenue. New York, NY 10016) : American Society of Mechanical Engineers, c2006.
Physical Description:
1 electronic text (xxi, 293 p.) : ill., digital file.
Contents:
1. Background information -- 2. Cylindrical shells -- 3. Spherical shells, heads, and transition sections -- 4. Flat plates, covers, and flanges -- 5. Openings -- 6. Special components, VIII-1 -- 7. Design of heat exchangers -- 8. Analysis of components in VIII-2.
Abstract:
Whether you are a beginning design engineer or an experienced engineering manager developing a mechanical integrity program, this fully updated third edition gives you a thorough examination and review of the requirements applicable to the design, materials selection, fabrication, inspection, and testing of pressure vessels and their components. Guidebook for Design of ASME Section VIII Pressure Vessels, Third Edition, provides you with a review of the background issues, reference materials, technology, and techniques necessary for the safe, reliable, cost-efficient function of pressure vessels in the petrochemical, paper, power, and other industries. Solved examples throughout the volume illustrate the application of various equations given in Section VIII.
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Electronic Access:
ASME http://ebooks.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/book.aspx?bookid=256