Design of Pressure Vessels detailed syllabus for Mechanical Engineering (Mech) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Mech students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Mechanical Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Mech 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-V scheme and its subjects refer to Mech Professional Elective-V syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of design of pressure vessels is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION 9 Methods for determining stresses – Terminology and Ligament Efficiency – Applications
Unit II
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Unit III
DESIGN OF VESSELS 9 Design of Tall cylindrical self-supporting process columns – Supports for short vertical vessels -Stress concentration at a variable Thickness transition section in a cylindrical vessel, about a circular hole, elliptical openings. Theory of Reinforcement – Pressure Vessel Design.
Unit IV
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Unit V
PIPING 9 Introduction – Flow diagram – piping layout and piping stress Analysis.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- John F. Harvey, “Theory and Design of Pressure Vessels”, CBS Publishers and Distributors,1987.
- Theory And Design Of Pressure Vessels (Pb 2001) by HARVEY J.F. | 1 January 2001
Reference Books:
- Henry H. Bedner, Pressure Vessels, Design Hand Book”, CBS publishers and Distributors,1987.
- Stanley, M. Wales, Chemical process equipment, selection and Design”. Buterworths series in Chemical Engineering, 1988.
- William. J., Bees, Approximate Methods in the Design and Analysis of Pressure Vessels and Piping, Pre ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, 1997.
- Sam Kannapan, Introduction to Pipe Stress Analysis. John Wiley and Sons, 1985.
- Theory and design of Pressure Vessels (Pb 2001)by HARVEY J.F. | 1 January 2001
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