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Attachment M - John Fowler - AnnexXRevB
Attachment M - John Fowler - AnnexXRevB
X.1 General
This annex describes the design analysis methodology used in the ASME Boiler and
Pressure Vessel Code, Section VIII, Pressure Vessels, Division 2, Alternative Methods,
Appendix 4, up to and including the 2004 version, as well as the ASME Code Section III,
Nuclear Power Components.
Methods are included for both elastic and elastic-plastic analysis, and for closed-form as
well as finite-element analysis methods of calculation, in accordance with the rules of
Appendix 4 of the 2004 Code, Section VIII Division 2.
API has adopted slightly different stress limits from the 2004 ASME Code. For the
purpose of this international standard, the basic stress limits are based on Sm and St,
which are defined as follows:
Stress components are combined to find the stress intensity, which is defined as twice
the maximum shear stress. This can be calculated as the difference between the largest
and smallest of the three principal stresses.
Primary stress includes both membrane and bending stress and is linearly distributed
across the wall section.
X.2.1.2Secondary Stress
Secondary stress Q is caused by the constraint of adjacent parts or by self-constraint of
the structure, and yielding can cause the source of the stress to be eliminated. One load
cycle can cause local yielding and stress redistribution but cannot result in failure or gross
distortion.
Secondary stresses are membrane plus bending stresses that can occur at gross structural
discontinuities, from general thermal stress, from mechanical preload conditions, or from
combinations of these sources.
The secondary stress variation, for any sequence of test or operating conditions, is limited
to 3 Sm.
The total stress, including peak stress, may be used in fatigue analysis, which is beyond
the scope of this annex.
The yield strength to be used is 1.5 Sm, which for non-standard materials may be less than
the actual specified minimum yield strength. Loading is incrementally increased until the
model diverges, which is the collapse load. Actual rated load capacity can be no more
than 2/3 of the limit analysis collapse loading.
Limit analysis may be used to justify high primary stresses but not secondary stresses. In
addition, limit analysis cannot be used to justify a wall thickness thinner than that
calculated on an elastic basis.
Elastic-Pplastic analysis can be used to justify high primary and secondary stresses.
However, limits for bearing stress, triaxial stress, and buckling shall be calculated
elastically.
The design is acceptable if shakedown occurs. That is, after successive applications of the
design loading, there is no progressive distortion or stress ratcheting. In addition the
deformations which occur prior to shakedown shall not exceed specified limits.
[I think that a better approach is to consider 2/3 of the ultimate capacity, where the
ultimate capacity is set by a limit on strain (ISO 13628-7 Annex D) or last converged
load].