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1. INTRODUCTION
2. OBJECTIVE
3. ASSUMPTIONS
4. CAD MODEL
5. MESHED MODEL
6. FE MODEL INFORMATION
7. MATERIAL PROPERTIES
8. LOADS AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
9. PROCEDURE
10. RESULTS DEFLECTIONS AND STRESSES
11. RESULTS SUMMARY
12. OBSERVATIONS AND CONCLUSION
This Report consists of Results and Conclusions for FE Structural Stress Analysis of
Vessel carried out to evaluate the Design adequacy for various loads like Design
Pressure, Hydro Test Pressure & Nozzles External Loads.
Based on the Inputs, Vessel dish end from flange with 9 Nos. Nozzles, 2 Stiffener
Rings and 2 Sliding Saddles are considered for the Analysis.
2.0 OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the design of Vessel Nozzles, Saddles and Stiffeners under various Loads.
S4
S9
S1A S8
S3
FIXED
SLIDING
SADDLE SADDLE
1,98,188
Achieved
2010 ASME Boiler and pressure vessel code, Section II, Part D
S4
The model is imported into Hyper mesh and meshed using solid tetra elements.
These elements were imported to ANSYS and assigned the Material Properties to each
component as specified in drawings.
Design pressure of 5.5 Bars is applied over the inner surfaces of vessel and nozzles.
For load cases, temperature of 159oC is applied over the inner surfaces of vessel.
Model is solved for 3 different load cases as specified in Introduction section in this report.
10
S4
S9
S3 S8 S1A
S2A Stress linearization
S5
Stress (Pl+Pb+Q) = 358 MPa
16
Stress (Pl+Pb+Q) = 50 MPa
Stress (Pl+Pb+Q) = 291 MPa
For reference only
9.6 Stress Analysis Results : Load Case-1
S6A S5
Stress Plot (MPa) : Von-Mises Stresses S2A
S4
S9
Stress linearization
S3 S8 S1A
S8
S9
Stress linearization
S3 S8 S1A
S9
S3 S4
S9
S3 S8 S1A
Stress linearization
S1A
S9
S3 S1A
S8
R1
R2
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Max. Deflection = 3 mm
S9
S3 S8 S1A
S2A
Stress linearization
S5
Stress (Pl+Pb+Q) = 227 MPa
S9
S3 S8 S1A
S8
Stress linearization
S6A
Stress (Pl+Pb+Q) = 321 MPa
S9
S3 S8 S1A
Stress linearization
S9
S9
Stress linearization
S3 S8 S1A
S1A
Stress (Pl+Pb+Q) = 209 MPa
28
Stress (Pl+Pb+Q) = 12 MPa
For reference only
10.7 Stress Analysis Results : Load Case-2
S5 S2A
S6A
Stress Plot (MPa) : Von-Mises Stresses
S4 R1
R2
S9
S3 S1A
S8
R1
R2
S1A
29
Stress (Pl+Pb+Q) = 72 MPa Stress (Pl+Pb+Q) = 32 MPa
For reference only
10.8 Stress Analysis Results : Load Case-2
Stress Plot (MPa) : Von-Mises Stresses
R2 R1
S1A
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S4
S9
S3 S8 S1A
S2A
Stress linearization
S5
S4
Stress linearization S9
S3 S8 S1A
S8
S6A
Stress (Pl+Pb+Q) = 207 MPa
Stress linearization S9
S3 S8 S1A
S9
S9
Stress linearization
S3 S8 S1A
S1A
S9
S3 S1A
S8
R1
R2
R2
Fixed Saddle
Sliding Saddle
Stress (Pl+Pb+Q) = 1104 MPa Stress (Pl+Pb+Q) = 861 MPa
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Stress Sm = 144 MPa
For reference only
12.2 Stress Result Summary:-
Nozzle No. Stress Category Load Case No. Stresses Baseline
Iteration (MPa)
1. Stresses in all the Nozzles are below respective Allowable Stresses as per the
Stress Categories of ASME Section-II D for all load cases, hence design is safe
to carry these loads.
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