Planning to weld pipes on the other side of the end plate; how should the strength be calculated?
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There are three elbows at the outlet of the shell-and-tube heat exchanger in the workshop; it is planned to replace them with one large elbow. On the other side of the end plate, there are straight pipes as well as reducers. 100 mm behind the end plate, there is already a stress-relief groove with a R18 radius on one side, and it is planned to create one similar groove on the other side as well. The operating pressure is approximately 7.5 MPa. Do you experts think that the strength of this end plate is sufficient?
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