Abstract: This paper presents cost-effective guidelines for practicing engineers to design, evaluate, or review the structural design of the sulfur recovery unit (SRU) used in refineries. Extensive efforts have been made over the ...

Abstract: This paper deals with the structural design aspects of support systems of industrial reactors. An overview of the geometric characteristics of vertical and horizontal reactors is presented. Finite element strategies to ...

Abstract: The surface-mining industry provides essential sources of energy in North America and has a major impact on the economy. Little information and few guidelines are available in current codes of practice to feed the engineering ...

Abstract: The paper examines the behavior of lightweight channels under combinations of axial compression, major and minor axis bending. Design guidelines are proposed that can be used by practicing engineers to maximize the channel ...

Abstract: Rectangular openings in structural members are used to allow the passage of services. Special design considerations are required to compensate for the reduction in stiffness and to minimize fatigue cracks in the web. The ...

Abstract: North American guidelines published by the ASCE and CSA provide a high-level approach for damage classification of blast resistant buildings. Furthermore, the structural damage assessment procedure of critical buildings ...

Abstract: Stiffened plates and shells are encountered in many engineering applications. Several analytical and numerical procedures were developed over the past decades for analysis of these structures. ...

Abstract: A semianalytical approach for the computation of the local buckling of stiffened plates under any combination of applied biaxial compression, in-plane bending, and shear stress is presented. The plate is treated as partially ...