Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Wow, summer time weather is upon us as we experience the first 90 degree F temperatures of the growing season. I se
I have made quite a few copper boilers, some to my own design. Never had a problem certifying them until this latest one. The boiler is for a 3.5 gauge Quarry Hunslet. Looking at a couple of published designs, show them to be very similar (as perhaps one might expect)
I have now been asked to provide boiler safety calculations, which is quite reasonable. However to do a proper stress calculation for the complete boiler looks as though it could turn int quite a complex exercise, if done correctly.
Can anyone point me to what is required and how straightforward or otherwise these calculations are?