Specific skills:

- Analyze, model and calculate equipment and installations for the handling of solid and fluids materials, and for heat transmission.

- Establish, considering the basic principles of engineering and material resistance, the specifications and the design of the equipment and installations suitable for a process.



Cross curricular skills:

- Compare and select technological alternatives integrating technical, economic, environmental and social impact criteria.

- Use information and communication technologies applied to advanced learning, and handle basic information sources, including specific databases of the modules, as well as office tools to support oral presentations

- Communicate and transmit, basically, in writing and orally, the knowledge, results, skills and abilities acquired in a multidisciplinary and multilingual environment.

- Participate and lead, where appropriate, working groups with critical reasoning and constructive spirit

- Solve problems of the common subjects of the industrial sector, raised with quality criteria, sensitivity for the environment, sustainability, ethical criteria and peace promotion.

1. Pressure vessel codes and rules. Development of pressure vessel construction codes. Structural and material considerations. Safety factor. 2. Structural design criteria. Modes of failure. Theories of failure. Stress categories. Allowable stress limits. Service limits. 3. Fracture. Fracture types. Ductile fracture. Brittle fracture. Brittle fracture mechanisms. Fracture mechanics. 4. Design for cyclic loading. Pressure vessels fatigue. Design of fatigue S–N. Fatigue mechanisms. Fatigue limit. Fatigue limit determination. Fatigue life. Design stress. Cumulative damage. Fatigue evaluation procedure.

5. Design at low temperatures. Fracture toughness. Standardized tests. Ductile-to-brittle transition temperature. Fracture toughness testing. Tough materials.

6. Design at high temperatures. Creep. Factors that affect creep. Design of creep curves. Mechanism of the creep process. Resistant materials under extreme temperature conditions. 7. Design of pressure vessels, cylindrical shells. Loads assessment. Thin-shell vessels. Thick-shell vessels. Approximate equations. Buckling of cylindrical shells. Mechanical design of equipment, practical examples. 8. Design of heads and covers. Hemispherical heads. Ellipsoidal heads. Torispherical heads. Conical heads. Toriconical heads. Flat heads and covers.

9. Design of nozzles and openings. Stress concentration about a circular hole. Cylindrical shell with a circular hole under internal pressure. Spherical shell with a circular hole under internal pressure. Reinforcement of openings. Nozzles.

10. Pipelines. Disposal of pipes in plant. Mechanical engineering of pipeline. Pipelines support systems. Maintenance and repairs.

11. Design of vessel supports and bolted flange connections. Lug supports. Support skirts. Saddle supports

In the Lectures the relevant theoretical information of each topic will be provided, highlighting the fundamental aspects of them. This information must be complemented with the specific bibliography, whose reference is supplied in the virtual classrooms and at the end of each topic.

In the Computer classes, problems of mechanic design of equipment will be solved, using programs of general use in the resolution of problems. The problems will be developed individually or in groups of three-four students. In the last case, one of the students will be leader and responsible for each of the stages of the process, problem proposal and schematization, resolution and results and conclusions. Computer class attendance is compulsory (minimum assistance 80 %).



Computer classes will be taught in a telepresential way.





In the seminar classes, global problems about mechanical design and their subsequent development will be solved. Seminar class attendance is compulsory (minimum assistance 80 %).



Seminar classes will be taught in a telepresential way.



The resolution of issues and problems will be evaluated by the teacher for follow-up.



In order to complement their training in bibliographic search, autonomy and presentations, skills each group of students will in writing (and/or oral) a topic on mechanical design of equipment and installations that will consist of: index, introduction, theoretical foundation, analysis and realization of the design, results and conclusions, nomenclature and bibliography.

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT SYSTEM

- Extended written exam 90-100%

- Practical work (exercises, case studies & problems set) 0-5%

- Individual work 0-5%



A minimum score of 5 in each task is required for counting the tasks.



A minimum score of 5 in the exam is required for counting the tasks.



In the event that health conditons prevent a presential evaluation from being carried out a non-presntial evaluatikn will be activated, which the students will be informed of in due course. Even the classes could pass to a telepresential way.



REQUESTING THE FINAL ASSESSMENT SYSTEM

Students that would like to be assessed by means of the final assessment system, regardless their participation in the continuous assessment, will have to present a written request addressed to the teacher in charge before week 9 by means of egela website.

Overdue requests or by other means ones will NOT be accepted.





ASSESSMENT CALL REJECTION

Both in the case of continuous and final assessment, since the weight of the final exam of the subject “Mechanical Design of Equipment” is greater than 40%, it will be enough with not presenting to the final exam, so that the final grade of the subject is <> (Art. 12.2 Text approved in the Degree Committee of May 16, 2019 and applicable in 2019/20)

- Basic bibliography (books and ASME code)
- Documentation of the topics provided in egela

Basic bibliography

Chattopadhyay, S.; Pressure vessels: design and practice, CRC Press, Boca Ratón, Fla., 2004.

Rothbart, H.A.; Brown, T.H.; Mechanical Design Handbook, Second Edition, McGraw Hill, 2006.

Farr, J.R.; Jawad, M.H.; Guidebook for the Design of ASME, Section VIII: Pressure Vessels, Third Edition, ASME, 2005.

Megyesy, E.; Pressure Vessel Handbook, 14th Edition: ASME Code Section VIII, Division I Condensed; The Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual for the Design and Fabrication of ASME Boilers & Pressure Vessels, Pressure Vessel Publishing, 2008.

Moss, D.R.; Pressure Vessel Design Manual, Third Edition, Elsevier, 2004.

Singh, K.P.; Soler, A.I.; Mechanical Design of Heat Exchangers and Pressure Vessel Components, Arcturus Pub, 1992

Escoe, K.; Piping and Pipelines Assessment Guide, Volume 1, Gulf Professional Pub., 2006.

Kuppan, T.; Heat Exchanger Design Handbook, Marcell Dekker, 2000.

Escoe, A.K.; Mechanical Design of Process Systems: Piping and Pressure Vessels, CRC Press, Boca Ratón, 1994.

Escoe, A.K.; Mechanical Design of Process Systems: Shell-And-Tube Heat Exchangers, Rotating Equipment, Bins, Silos, Stacks, CRC Press, Boca Ratón, 1995.

In-depth bibliography

2007 ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code VIII Division 1 Rules for Construction of Pressure Vessels, ASME, 2007.

Journals

www.asme.org/ American Web de la Society Of Mechanical Engineers - ASME.