Description

This Standard specifies the requirements for design, construction, inspection and testing of unfired pressure vessels.

It defines terms, definitions and symbols applicable to unfired pressure vessels.

Scope

In this Standard the term pressure vessel includes the welded attachments up to and including the nozzle flanges, screwed or welded connections, or the edge to be welded at the first circumferential weld at connecting piping or other elements.

The term unfired excludes vessels that are subject to direct generated heat or flame impingement from a fired process. This does not exclude vessels subject to electrical heating or heated process streams.

In Parts 2 to 5 only pressure vessels manufactured from steels and steel castings as detailed in Part 2 of this standard are covered. 

Part 3 of this Standard gives the rules to be used for design and calculation under internal and/or external pressure (as applicable), local loads and actions other than pressure. The rules provided are both design by formulae (DBF), design by analysis (DBA) and design by experiment (DBE).

This part also sets the requirements for when fatigue analysis must be performed and the rules to be followed when this is the case.