How to determine the axial tensile load when calculating the strength of equipment flanges
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When performing strength calculations on non-standard container flanges using SW6, how should the axial tensile load be entered?
This has been calculated. If lateral loads are not considered for the device, they are generally ignored.
For tower-type containers, axial forces need to be considered when the tower sections are connected by flanges.
Axial tensile load refers to additional loads; for example, in a vertical 3000-series tank supported on the floor by brackets, a heat exchanger with a diameter of 1000 is attached to the bottom of the tank using large flanges, and this heat exchanger weighs several tons. When calculating the forces on the flanges, it is necessary to account for the weight of the heat exchanger as an axial tensile load, or the piping engineering team will specify the additional load exerted by the flanges‘； For ordinary containers, flanges generally do not need to be entered