DESIGN PHILOSOPHY OF FLAT RIBBON WOUND LAYERED PRESSURE-VESSEL

ASME Code Case 2229 provides minimum requirements for designing and co nstructing flat ribbon wound layered pressure vessel. The author has w orked in this field for more than 10 years and describes the design ph ilosophy of the flat ribbon wound layered pressure vessel through four parts: strength calculation, fatigue strength, engineering design, an d nozzle reinforcements. A new joint construction between ribbon wound shell and hemispherical head thinner than shell and comments on the C ode Case are also given. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights res erved.