How to determine the thickness of the segments of the SW6 calculation tower
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Hello, everyone**! I have a tower that is 39 meters tall, with a diameter of 2400 mm. The base portion is 9 meters wide, while the cylindrical section is 29 meters long. The design pressure is -0.1 MPa, and the design temperature is 380°C. The material used is 316L. I used SW6 to divide the structure into sections, one section at a time from bottom to top; the calculation showed that a thickness of 22 mm was required. However, when I divided it into five sections of equal thickness, each section only needed a thickness of 12 mm. I’m not sure why this is the case. Is it possible to calculate it this way? Waiting online! Thank you. :hug:
Bench, bench, bench. . . . .
The last edit to this post was made by letitbe on 2015-8-13 at 15:29; the calculation process for the lower tower section ignored the \"axial compressive stress in the tower cross-section\", resulting in an incorrect thickness
The more segments there are, the more gradually the wall thickness decreases