The new VES release 8.1 has been completed and send to the customers.
The following changes and additions have been incorporated:
ASME VIII div.1
- Update UHX 2010, added Ap, Cp for UHX 13.2 step 8 for a more accurate calculation of shear stress
- Added appendix 26 Bellows for shell & tube heat exchangers
- Updated help file
EN13445 part 3
- Clause 8.6 External pressure cone with stiffener ring
- Clause 14 Bellows for shell & tube heat exchangers
- Clause 16.4 Local loads on spherical shells
- Clause 16.5 Local loads on cylindrical shells
- Clause 16.10 Bracket supports
- Clause 16.12 Skirts for vertical vessels
- Updated help file
RToD
- Added D0206 rectangular headers under internal pressure
- Corrected pressure area calculations D0501 for oblique nozzles on cones
- Used D0105 1.4 (see appendix 1) to add yield/temperature curve Rst-37.2
- Exporting to PDF file with predefined file name incorporating item number, revision, part number and document number:E0123 Rev.A Shell Barrel D0201.pdf
- D0701 for floating head: incorporated length L of the spherical dish to calculate moments and stress. This will reduce stress in the flange
- Welded flat cover D0401 with opening according D0503. The actual used strength reduction must be z <= 1
AD2000
- Added B1 Bend / Elbow Updated help file