Thermo-structural fatigue analysis of shell and tube type heat exchanger

摘要

Increased demand of alternative fuels, need of high pressure and temperature vessels for petroleum refineries, chemical plants gave rise to the development in the pressure vessel technology from last few decades. Many advancements in the field of pressure vessel engineering such as fracture mechanics, fatigue and creep process understanding, new material grades & composite materials, welding techniques such as explosion welding and various finite element analysis techniques like thermal coupled structural, transient thermal, dynamic simulations like response spectrum and nonlinear buckling which accurately assessing the stresses encountered in pressure vessels are developed.