Training skid of Dijkgraaf-Suport is being unloaded at the User Day site. We have received very positive feedback and will have more of these User Days in the future. We thank all participants and especially thank Peter Dijkgraaf and Cyril Wentzel for their excellent contribution.
First participants arrive
Participants are from fabricators, engineering contractors and operator-owners
Agenda of the day included technical subjects, software progress and practical tests
Some introduction of the subjects
Development of the VES software
EN1591 flange calculation introduction of the overall procedure
Example of the discussion of flanges
Finite Element Analysis advantages and pitfalls by Cyril Wentzel of Wentzel dynamics
Some specific examples of FEA
Flange management by Peter Dijkgraaf of Dijkgraaf-Support
Practical test to assemble a flange pair
Find the correct tools and assess the dislocation of the flanges
Apply torque to the bolts
Increase the bolt torque to finalize the assembly
The flanges have photographic paper to measure the gasket pressure
Result on the paper shows gasket pressure at the bottom, virtually no pressure at the top. This is more difficult than it seems.