| MT-COMP Revision 3.1.0 (January 2007) | |
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| 1. | ASME VII.1 The ASME Code has been revised to be compliant with ASME VIII Div.1 Addenda 2006. |
| 2. | AD-MERKBLATT The AD-MERKBLATT code has been updated to the latest revised sections. In particular the following sections have been revised or added to the program: |
| 3. | Materials The following materials have been added to data base:
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| 4. | Materials The mechanical properties of the following materials have been extended until 250 mm.
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| 5. | Materials The ASME II - Part D (materials) has been revised to the Addenda 2006. In particular: The following ASME charts for vacuum have been revised or added: All the Ferrous material included in database have been revised and the dependence of the materials from the thickness, if any, has been inserted in the database. |
| 6. | Materials The calculation of the allowable stress of Stainless Steels with elongation greater than 35% per ISPESL-VSR has been fixed according to the "Raccomandazioni CTI". |
| 7. | Materials The calculation of the allowable stresses for Nickel and Titanium materials according to EN 13445 has been added to the program. The same criteria of the non austenitic steels are applied with a warning message to the user. |
| 8. | Materials The calculation of the allowable stresses for Nickel and Titanium materials according to ISPESL-VSR has been added to the program. |
| 9. | General. A warning message has been added to alert the user when the calculation is locked by other user. |
| 10. | General. The default in the changing of the localization data has been modified from permanent to temporary. |
| 11. | Audit Report The conversion factor of the allowable stresses in the printout of the calculation datasheet has been aligned with the value used in the unit system file. |
| 12. | Audit Report The printout of the datasheets pages has been fixed. The starting page forced by the user was not assumed correctly by the program. |
| 13. | Nozzles. A double conversion of system units, when importing wall data in nozzles calculation, has been fixed. |
| 14. | Nozzles. The calculation of the nozzle compensation for ASME code has been changed. The program calculates now the compensation on all the area (before the calculation was on half the area). The datasheets has been changed accordingly. |
| 15 | Nozzles. The calculation of the selfreinforcing nozzles according to ASME has been completely revised to allow both of the configuration (e-1) and (e-2) of Fig.UG-40 |
| 16 | Nozzles. The calculation of the large openings per ASME 1-7(b) has been added to the nozzles analysis. |
| 17 | Nozzles The calculation of the nozzle thickness per ASME UG-45 has been added to the nozzle datasheet. |
| 18 | Nozzles A check has been added to the program alerting the user when the thickness of the nozzle is lower than the one required by the ASME UG-45. |
| 19 | Nozzles A warning has been added in the nozzles calculation when the specified Nominal Diameter does not match with the values loaded in the database. The nozzle is calculated as nozzle from plate. |
| 20 | Nozzles A control has been added in order to increase the nozzle height when the total length of the nozzle flange is greater than the standard nozzle height |
| 21 | Nozzles A control on the presence of the nozzle data in the archive has been added to avoid the program crash. | 22 | Flanges. The formula of the allowables of the SH stress for the shell in the datasheets for flanges ASME Loose WN has been fixed to 1.5*fv. |
| 23 | Flanges. The calculation of the flanges loose with hub for ASME and VSR has been fixed. The calculation was in loop in the rigidity analysis. |
| 24 | Flanges The calculation of the flanges according to VSR has been fixed. The test condition was not taken into consideration in the calculation of the moment for the seating condition. |
| 25. | Flanges The rigidity analysis for flanges Lap Joint for the codes ASME and VSR has been fixed. The calculation was not performed before. |
| 26 | Flanges The calculation of the equivalent pressure due to external loads and moments has been added to the girth flanges calculation. The equivalent pressure is taken into consideration for the flanges according to VSR/ASME/EN codes. |
| 27 | Flanges The option B1 for B in the Appendix 2-3 has been added for the ASME flanges calculation. |
| 28 | Flanges The LWN flanges from 26" to 42" for the ratings 150/300/400/600/900 have been added to the nozzles database. |
| 29 | Flanges The calculation of the flanges Loose / Lap Joint with hub according to VSR / ASME has been fixed. The calculation was in error when the analysis of rigidity was the controlling condition. |
| 30 | Tubesheet A code has been added to the calculation of the tubesheets to select if the vacuum condition is coexistent with the design conditions. The vacuum conditon will be added to the design pressure of the other side during the start up and shut down conditions only if the code has been set Yes. |
| 31 | Tubesheet The tubesheet calculation has been fixed. The calculation conditions forced from input was not processed correctly for not fixed tubesheets. |
| 32 | Floating Head. The calculation of the floating flange has been revised with the calculation of the distance of the cover from the edge of the flange in corroded conditions. |
| 33 | Floating Head The optimization of the cover position in the floating flange has been added to the program. |
| 34 | Floating Head The calculation of the shell side hydraulic test pressure on the floating cover according to ASME as been fixed. The value of the pressure has been multiplied by 1.3 in agreement with the criteria set forth by ASME for the hydraulic test pressure calculation. |
| 35 | Floating Head The calculation of the allowable stress of the bolts of the floating flange in test has been modified to accept the values forced in input. The allowable stress was calculated always as 90% of the yield strength.. |
| 36 | Cones The thicknesses calculated to the external pressures of the shells adjacent to the cone have been added for the junction analysis of the cones to the external pressure. |
| 37 | Expansion Joint A check on the input data of the outer cylinder of the TEMA expansion joint has been added to avoid crash of the program for input data missing. |
| 38 | Expansion joint The allowable stress in the calculation of the membrane stress at X=ya and X=la for the expansion joint according to TEMA has been modified to assume the values of the shell welded to the joint for X=ya or the minimum between the shell and the joint for X=la. |
| 39 | Expansion joint The calculation of the coefficient C5 related to tubesheet with expansion joint according to AD-MERKBLATT has been fixed. |
| 40 | Gaskets The height of the internal / external rings for spiral wound gaskets has been added to the program. |
| 41 | U Tubes The table of U tubes in the exchanger tubes module has been increased to 100 lines. Moreover the possibility of importing the values of U tubes from tubesheet layout has been added to the program. |
| 42 | U Tubes The minimum required thickness to the external pressure has been added to the datasheets of the exchangers tubes. The value is required for the U bent check according to TEMA. |
| 43 | Formed Heads The external design temperature has been added in the calculation of formed heads. |
| 44 | Formed Heads The height of the elliptical head 2:1 on the ASME datasheet has been fixed. The height was wrong for heads with internal lining. |
| 45 | Floating Heads The check in the seating conditions of the floating head with backing ring + spacer has been added for calculation according to VSR / ASME. |
| 46 | Audit reports The program revision has been added on all the calculation datasheets. |
| 47 | Audit reports The field related to number of pages in the calculation datasheets has been enlarged to allow numbers greater than 100. |
| MT-EXCH Revision 3.1.0 (January 2007) | |
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| 1. | ASME VII.1 The ASME Code has been revised to be compliant with ASME VIII Div.1 Addenda 2006. |
| 2. | AD-MERKBLATT The AD-MERKBLATT code has been updated to the latest revised sections. In particular the following sections have been revised or added to the program: |
| 3. | Wind/EarthquakeThe calculation of the wind and earthquake according to ASCE 2002 has been added to the program. |
| 4. | Materials The following materials have been added to data base:
|
| 5. | Materials The mechanical properties of the following materials have been extended until 250 mm.
|
| 6. | Materials The ASME II - Part D (materials) has been revised to the Addenda 2006. In particular: The following ASME charts for vacuum have been revised or added: All the Ferrous material included in database have been revised and the dependence of the materials from the thickness, if any, has been inserted in the database. |
| 7. | Materials The calculation of the allowable stress of Stainless Steels with elongation greater than 35% per ISPESL-VSR has been fixed according to the "Raccomandazioni CTI". |
| 8. | Materials The calculation of the allowable stresses for Nickel and Titanium materials according to EN 13445 has been added to the program. The same criteria of the non austenitic steels are applied with a warning message to the user. |
| 9. | Materials The calculation of the allowable stresses for Nickel and Titanium materials according to ISPESL-VSR has been added to the program. |
| 10. | General. A warning message has been added to alert the user when the calculation is locked by other user. |
| 11. | General. The default in the changing of the localization data has been modified from permanent to temporary. |
| 12. | Audit Report The conversion factor of the allowable stresses in the printout of the calculation datasheet has been aligned with the value used in the unit system file. |
| 13. | Audit Report The printout of the datasheets pages has been fixed. The starting page forced by the user was not assumed correctly by the program. |
| 14. | Nozzles. The calculation of the nozzle compensation for ASME code has been changed. The program calculates now the compensation on all the area (before the calculation was on half the area). The datasheets has been changed accordingly. |
| 15. | Nozzles. The calculation of the selfreinforcing nozzles according to ASME has been completely revised to allow both of the configuration (e-1) and (e-2) of Fig.UG-40 |
| 16. | Nozzles. The calculation of the large openings per ASME 1-7(b) has been added to the nozzles analysis. |
| 17. | Nozzles The calculation of the nozzle thickness per ASME UG-45 has been added to the nozzle datasheet. |
| 18. | Nozzles A check has been added to the program alerting the user when the thickness of the nozzle is lower than the one required by the ASME UG-45. |
| 19. | Nozzles A warning has been added in the nozzles calculation when the specified Nominal Diameter does not match with the values loaded in the database. The nozzle is calculated as nozzle from plate. |
| 20. | Nozzles A control has been added in order to increase the nozzle height when the total length of the nozzle flange is greater than the standard nozzle height |
| 21. | Nozzles A control on the presence of the nozzle data in the archive has been added to avoid the program crash. |
| 22. | Flanges. The formula of the allowables of the SH stress for the shell in the datasheets for flanges ASME Loose WN has been fixed to 1.5*fv. |
| 23. | Flanges. The calculation of the flanges loose with hub for ASME and VSR has been fixed. The calculation was in loop in the rigidity analysis. |
| 24. | Flanges The calculation of the flanges according to VSR has been fixed. The test condition was not taken into consideration in the calculation of the moment for the seating condition. |
| 25. | Flanges The rigidity analysis for flanges Lap Joint for the codes ASME and VSR has been fixed. The calculation was not performed before. |
| 26. | Flanges The option B1 for B in the Appendix 2-3 has been added for the ASME flanges calculation. |
| 27. | Flanges The LWN flanges from 26" to 42" for the ratings 150/300/400/600/900 have been added to the nozzles database. |
| 28. | Flanges The calculation of the flanges Loose / Lap Joint with hub according to VSR / ASME has been fixed. The calculation was in error when the analysis of rigidity was the controlling condition. |
| 29. | Tubesheet A code has been added to the calculation of the tubesheets to select if the vacuum condition is coexistent with the design conditions. The vacuum conditon will be added to the design pressure of the other side during the start up and shut down conditions only if the code has been set Yes. |
| 30. | Tubesheet The tubesheet calculation has been fixed. The calculation conditions forced from input was not processed correctly for not fixed tubesheets. |
| 31. | Floating Head. The calculation of the floating flange has been revised with the calculation of the distance of the cover from the edge of the flange in corroded conditions. |
| 32. | Floating Head The optimization of the cover position in the floating flange has been added to the program. |
| 33. | Floating Head The calculation of the shell side hydraulic test pressure on the floating cover according to ASME as been fixed. The value of the pressure has been multiplied by 1.3 in agreement with the criteria set forth by ASME for the hydraulic test pressure calculation. |
| 34. | Floating Head The calculation of the allowable stress of the bolts of the floating flange in test has been modified to accept the values forced in input. The allowable stress was calculated always as 90% of the yield strength.. |
| 35. | Expansion Joint A check on the input data of the outer cylinder of the TEMA expansion joint has been added to avoid crash of the program for input data missing. |
| 36. | Expansion joint The allowable stress in the calculation of the membrane stress at X=ya and X=la for the expansion joint according to TEMA has been modified to assume the values of the shell welded to the joint for X=ya or the minimum between the shell and the joint for X=la. |
| 37. | Expansion joint The calculation of the coefficient C5 related to tubesheet with expansion joint according to AD-MERKBLATT has been fixed. |
| 38. | Gaskets The height of the internal / external rings for spiral wound gaskets has been added to the program. |
| 39. | Formed Heads The height of the elliptical head 2:1 on the ASME datasheet has been fixed. The height was wrong for heads with internal lining. |
| 40. | Floating Heads The check in the seating conditions of the floating head with backing ring + spacer has been added for calculation according to VSR / ASME. |
| 41. | U Tubes The function of import from tubesheet layout has been improuved in order to import also the tubes per row and the mean radius of the tubes per row for U tubes exchangers.The number of row has been increased from 60 to 100. |
| 42. | Audit reports The program revision has been added on all the calculation datasheets. |
| 43. | Audit reports The field related to number of pages in the calculation datasheets has been enlarged to allow numbers greater than 100. |
| 44. | Audit reports The printout of the index of the audit report has been fixed regarding the starting page. |
| 45. | Messages Some wrong warning messages printed out in the calculation of the tubesheets according to ASME have been fixed. |
| 46. | Bill of Material The calculation of test ring / test flange has been added to the Bill of materials. |
| 47. | Drawings The value of the gasket mean diameter on the exchanger drawing has been fixed. The value of the gasket reaction diameter was printed before. |
| MT-LAYOUT Revision 3.1.0 (January 2007) | |
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| 1. | General A check of the local settings has been added to the program. The user has the possibility of restore initial settings when the program exit or to modify permanently the local settings according to the program requirements |
| 2. | MT-EXCH The program has been modified for allowing the export of the number of tubes per row and of the mean radius of the tubes per row ( U tubes type exchangers) into MT-EXCH. |
| MT-VESS Revision 3.1.0 (January 2007) | |
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| 1. | ASME VII.1 The ASME Code has been revised to be compliant with ASME VIII Div.1 Addenda 2006. |
| 2. | AD-MERKBLATT The AD-MERKBLATT code has been updated to the latest revised sections. In particular the following sections have been revised or added to the program: |
| 3. | Wind/EarthquakeThe calculation of the wind and earthquake according to ASCE 2002 has been added to the program. |
| 4. | Materials The following materials have been added to data base:
|
| 5. | Materials The mechanical properties of the following materials have been extended until 250 mm.
|
| 6. | Materials The ASME II - Part D (materials) has been revised to the Addenda 2006. In particular: The following ASME charts for vacuum have been revised or added: All the Ferrous material included in database have been revised and the dependence of the materials from the thickness, if any, has been inserted in the database. |
| 7. | Materials The calculation of the allowable stress of Stainless Steels with elongation greater than 35% per ISPESL-VSR has been fixed according to the "Raccomandazioni CTI". |
| 8. | Materials The calculation of the allowable stresses for Nickel and Titanium materials according to EN 13445 has been added to the program. The same criteria of the non austenitic steels are applied with a warning message to the user. |
| 9. | Materials The calculation of the allowable stresses for Nickel and Titanium materials according to ISPESL-VSR has been added to the program. |
| 10. | General. A warning message has been added to alert the user when the calculation is locked by other user. |
| 11. | General. The default in the changing of the localization data has been modified from permanent to temporary. |
| 12. | Input Files Input Files Format WARNING!!! Due to the many improuvements to the program, the old input files are no more compatible with the new program version. Old calculations must be updated to the new input format using the program VES302to310.EXE included in the installation directory of the program. The user is warned to carefully check the input data when moving old input files to the new format. |
| 13. | Audit Report The conversion factor of the allowable stresses in the printout of the calculation datasheet has been aligned with the value used in the unit system file. |
| 14. | Audit Report The printout of the datasheets pages has been fixed. The starting page forced by the user was not assumed correctly by the program. |
| 15. | Nozzles. The calculation of the nozzle compensation for ASME code has been changed. The program calculates now the compensation on all the area (before the calculation was on half the area). The datasheets has been changed accordingly. |
| 16. | Nozzles. The calculation of the selfreinforcing nozzles according to ASME has been completely revised to allow both of the configuration (e-1) and (e-2) of Fig.UG-40 |
| 17. | Nozzles. The calculation of the large openings per ASME 1-7(b) has been added to the nozzles analysis. |
| 18. | Nozzles The calculation of the nozzle thickness per ASME UG-45 has been added to the nozzle datasheet. |
| 19. | Nozzles A check has been added to the program alerting the user when the thickness of the nozzle is lower than the one required by the ASME UG-45. |
| 20. | Nozzles A warning has been added in the nozzles calculation when the specified Nominal Diameter does not match with the values loaded in the database. The nozzle is calculated as nozzle from plate. |
| 21. | Nozzles A control has been added in order to increase the nozzle height when the total length of the nozzle flange is greater than the standard nozzle height |
| 22. | Nozzles A control on the presence of the nozzle data in the archive has been added to avoid the program crash. |
| 23. | Nozzles The calculation of adjacent nozzles on appendix has been fixed for appendix with more than one cylindrical shell. |
| 24. | Nozzles The possibility to verify existing nozzles has been added to the program. |
| 25. | Flanges. The formula of the allowables of the SH stress for the shell in the datasheets for flanges ASME Loose WN has been fixed to 1.5*fv. |
| 26. | Flanges. The calculation of the flanges loose with hub for ASME and VSR has been fixed. The calculation was in loop in the rigidity analysis. |
| 27. | Flanges The calculation of the flanges according to VSR has been fixed. The test condition was not taken into consideration in the calculation of the moment for the seating condition. |
| 28. | Flanges The rigidity analysis for flanges Lap Joint for the codes ASME and VSR has been fixed. The calculation was not performed before. |
| 29. | Flanges The option B1 for B in the Appendix 2-3 has been added for the ASME flanges calculation. |
| 30. | Flanges The LWN flanges from 26" to 42" for the ratings 150/300/400/600/900 have been added to the nozzles database. |
| 31. | Flanges The calculation of the flanges Loose / Lap Joint with hub according to VSR / ASME has been fixed. The calculation was in error when the analysis of rigidity was the controlling condition. |
| 32. | Flanges The calculation check of the standard girth flanges has been added to the program. The corresponding datasheets have been generated and added to the audit report printout. |
| 33. | Flanges The calculation of the equivalent pressure due to external loads and moments has been added to the girth flanges calculation. The equivalent pressure is taken into consideration for the flanges according to VSR/ASME/EN codes.s. |
| 34. | Gaskets The height of the internal / external rings for spiral wound gaskets has been added to the program. |
| 35. | Formed Heads The height of the elliptical head 2:1 on the ASME datasheet has been fixed. The height was wrong for heads with internal lining. |
| 36. | Audit Reports The program revision has been added on all the calculation datasheets. |
| 37. | Audit Reports The field related to number of pages in the calculation datasheets has been enlarged to allow numbers greater than 100. |
| 38. | Audit Reports The calculation datasheets related to the compensation of the appendix have been added to the audit report. |
| 39. | Audit Reports The printout of the index of the audit report has been fixed regarding the starting page. |
| 40. | Drawings The detail of the flange in the vessel drawing has been fixed regarding to the riser thickness. |
| 41. | Drawings The drawing of the girth flanges in the vessel drawing has been improuved to take into account the standard girth flanges. |
| 42. | Geometry The management of appendix elements has been revised to allow appendix ending with flange and appendix positioned on different main elements. Both the calculation and the drawing have been revised. |
| 43. | Local Loads The nozzle material in the local loads calculation has been fixed. |
| 44. | Local Loads The local load analysis for all the vessel nozzles has been added to the program. The user can select the range of the nozzle to analyze. |
| 45. | Stiffening Rings The stiffening rings postioning has been fixed. |
| 46. | MAWP The calculation of the MAWP has been added to the program. |
| 47. | Rating The calculation in check mode has been added to the program. For every component in the vessel it is now possible to specify the geometrical properties and the program checks if the given geometry can resist the vessel design conditions. |
| 48. | Saddles The saddle "User" has been added to the program. The user can now specify saddles type different from the Micro Techno standard included in the program. |
| 49. | Skirt User Standard Table for Skirts WARNING!!! The table of "User Standard" for skirt has been modified. Older vessels calculations for which "User Standard" for skirt were specified should reenter the skirt "User Standard" table before running with the new program version. |