Vacuum / external pressure design (pipes, tanks, & vessels) (per ASME VIII…)
Pipemill: for the design, analysis and layout of piping components
Pipes, tanks and vessels may be evaluated for their resistance to collapse under external pressure and/or vacuum. With Pipemill, ring stiffeners may then be designed to prevent collapse (as right).
Evaluation is in accordance with ASME VIII Div. 1. [IUG-28, UG-29 not mentioned yet]
Pipe stiffening design
The pipe or cylinder may be un-stiffened or have stiffener rings of user designed, or standard, sections (see right, below (stiffener component data)).
Materials data included
Common materials data may be accessed from the integrated Pipemill database, which includes digitised curves.
Note: Certain paragraphs of the ASME design code allow use of nominal wall thickness where clearly the actual minimum should be considered. Pipemill always uses the minimum wall thickness.
Analysis support
- Example analyses
- Explanatory notes
- Scientific calculator
