Tanks & Pressure Vessels

Design & simulation solutions for tanks & pressure vessels.

Mobile fabricated structures require lightweight materials that do not compromise structural integrity, allowing for easy transport and assembly. Engineers must also consider the complexities of modular design, ensuring components fit together seamlessly while maintaining durability under varying loads and use cases.

Simulation can aid in the design of mobile fabricated structures by enabling engineers to test a wide variety of load conditions on a range of different designs quickly and efficiently.

Compliance With Industry Standards

Pressure vessels are potentially hazardous equipment with a high impact on life and cost if they fail. Thus it is important to design them so as to prevent failure!

Simulation enables an engineer to resolve the stresses in pressure vessels to a format which can then be evaluated against industry and country design codes such as ASME VIII etc.

Leak Before Burst

If a pressure vessel fails, it is preffered to have it leak, instead of catastrophically burst and cause large scale damage to surrounding people and equipment.

Simulation is able to assess a pressure vessel design and check whether a crack will grow past the material’s critical crack length causing spontaious rapid failure, also known as bursting. The design can be modified to allow the for a leak, without a runaway crack propagation.

Mitigating Buckling Failure

Pressure vessels and tanks are often slender tall structures which can be prone to buckling which could result in instantaneous failure through unstable non-linear buckling failure.

Simulation can determine during the design phase how prone a structure is to buckling failure.

Sliding slurries (pressures) causing structural failures

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Tangential pressure are applied to pressure vessels ?

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