Pressure Systems Casebook

<i>Pressure Systems Casebook</i> contains a collection of papers drawn from two IMechE seminars that will be of particular interest to students and engineers who want to broaden their knowledge and learn from experience and history.  <p>The authors’ backgrounds cover a range of perspectives, from representing industrial users of pressure systems to regulators, research, and engineering consultants.</p> <p><b>Complete contents:</b></p> <ul type=”disc”> <li>Lessons from failures of gas cylinders used for dispensing beverages</li> <li>Experience from Health and Safety laboratory investigations</li> <li>Insurance aspects of pressure systems failures</li> <li>Failure investigation for commercial purposes – system failures leading to the collapse of storage vessels under partial vacuum</li> <li>Reliable technical failure investigation</li> <li>Failure design procedures in the new European Pressure Vessel Standard EN 13445</li> <li>Causes of vibration fatigue in process pipework – a new methodology to assess the risk</li> <li>Avoiding vibration-induced fatigue failures in process pipework</li> <li>Lessons learned from pressure system failures</li> </ul> <p>Pressure systems contain stored energy and the threat of damaging failure is ever present.  Failures of pressure systems still occur and are costly to those affected; yet the main causes, consequences, and methods of investigation are not widely known.  Pre-existing defects are a major cause of failures and near-failures in pressure systems, yet many can be avoided by greater awareness of the circumstances in which they arise.</p>