Pressure Vessel Design

This book guides through general and fundamental problems of pressure vessel design. It moreover considers also problems which seem to be of lower importance but which turned out to be crucial in the design phase. The basic approach is rigorously scientific with a complete theoretical development of the topics treated, but the analysis is always pushed so far as to offer concrete and precise calculation criteria that can be immediately applied to actual designs. This is accomplished through appropriate algorithms that lead to final equations or to characteristic parameters defined through mathematical equations.