This clause contains specific requirements for pressure equipment that have been considered on all harmonized standards of Directive 2014/68/EU, generally known as the Pressure Equipment Directive. It comes from a compromise solution found during the preparation of the first Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/EC, of which the subject directive 2014/68/EU is…
This year it was particularly rich in news for anyone working with European, American and also Italian standards: there is a lot of movement, we will try to explain why and analyze the consequences. The harmonized Unfired Pressure Vessel standard EN 13445. During 2018 several amendments of part 3 (Design…
I started working as a pressure vessel designer about 50 years ago. As all the young engineers, at that time I had no ideas about the work needed for the preparation and maintenance of Pressure Vessel safety standards: I simply knew that different standards, laws and regulations existed in the…
NextGen software 2018-2019 With the release of version 2018.3 and the preparation of new releases for 2019 the update and enhancement work on NextGen software is going on; many important features have been added to NextGen software in 2018 as: ASME calculation report in Russian language, EN 13445 and AD2000 calculation reports…
About 50 years ago, when the main pressure vessel standards were composed only by a few pages, and the sliding rule was the only available tool for the pressure vessel designer, the Taylor Forge method for the calculation of flanges was regarded as a very advanced and sophisticated procedure for…
