BS 5500:1997

Committees responsible
Summary of pages
Foreword
Specification
Section 1. General
1.1 Scope
1.2 Interpretation
1.3 Definitions
1.4 Responsibilities
1.5 Information and requirements to be agreed and to
      be documented
1.6 Thicknesses
Section 2. Materials
2.1 Selection of materials
2.2 Materials for low temperature applications
2.3 Carbon, carbon manganese and alloy steels
Section 3. Design
3.1 General
3.2 Application
3.3 Corrosion, erosion and protection
3.4 Construction categories and design stresses
3.5 Vessels under internal pressure
3.6 Vessels under external pressure
3.7 Supports, attachments and internal structures
3.8 Bolted flanged connections
3.9 Flat heat exchanger tubesheets
3.10 Design of welds
3.11 Jacket construction
3.12 Manholes and inspection openings
3.13 Protective devices for excessive pressure or vacuum
Section 4. Manufacture and workmanship
4.1 General aspects of construction
4.2 Cutting, forming and tolerances
4.3 Welded joints
4.4 Heat treatment
4.5 Surface finish
Section 5. Inspection and testing
5.1 General
5.2 Approval testing of fusion welding procedures
5.3 Welder and operator approval
5.4 Production and control test plates
5.5 Destructive testing
5.6 Non-destructive testing
5.7 Acceptance criteria for weld defects revealed by
      visual examination and non-destructive testing
5.8 Pressure tests
5.9 Inspection requirements for cast components
Annexes
A Recommendations for design where loadings and
      components are not covered by section 3
B Recommendations for cylindrical, spherical and
      conical shells under combined loadings, including
      wind and earthquakes
C Requirements for the assessment of vessels subject
      to fatigue
D Requirements for ferritic steels in bands M0 to M4
      inclusive for vessels required to operate below 0degC
E Recommendations for welded connections of pressure
      vessels
F An alternative design approach for compensation
      using the pressure area method
G Recommendations for methods of calculation of
      stresses from local loads, thermal gradients, etc.
H Recommendations for post-weld heat treatment of
      dissimilar ferritic steel joints
J Recommendations for pressure relief protective
      devices
K Requirements for the derivation of material nominal
      design strengths for construction category 1 and 2
      vessels
L Not allocated
M Guidance on safe external working pressure for
      cylindrical sections outside the circulatory
      limits specified in 3.6
N Not allocated
P Recommendations for preparation and testing of
      production control test plates
Q Recommendations for preparation and testing of
      production control test plates
R Guidance on additional information for flat ends
      and flat plates
S Guidance on optional documentation for supply with
      vessel
T Recommendations for arc welded tube to tubeplate
      joints
U Guidance on the use of fracture mechanics analyses
V Requirements for testing and inspection of serially
      produced pressure vessels
W Worked examples for vessels under external pressure
Y Worked examples for supports and mountings for
      horizontal vessels
Aluminium Supplement
      Requirements for aluminium and aluminium alloys in
      the design and construction of unfired fusion
      welded pressure vessels
Nickel Supplement
      Requirements for nickel and nickel alloys in the design
      and construction of unfired fusion welded pressure
      vessels
Tables
1-5-1 Purchaser options and features requiring approval
      by the purchaser
2-1-1 Material banding
2-1-2 Temperature above which time dependent properties
      shall be considered
2-2-1 Bolting materials for low-temperature
2-3-1 Design strength values: index of steels
2-3-2 to
2-3-5 Design strength values
3-4-1 Construction categories
3-5-1 -
5-7-5
A.1 Classification of stresses for some typical cases
C.1 Details of fatigue design curves
C.2 Classification of weld details
C.3 Values of M1, M2 and M3
C.4 Weld defect acceptance levels
C.5 Fatigue test factor F
D.1 Impact requirements for plates, forgings,
      castings and tubes
D.2 Design reference temperature
D.3 Design reference temperature for heat exchanger tubes
G.1 Values of K1 and K2
G.2 Design factors K1 and K2
G.3 Design factors K3 and K4 and allowable tangential
      shearing stresses
G.4 Design factor K6
G.5 Values of constants C4, C5, K5, K7 and K8
G.6 Values of K10 and K11
G.7 Circumferential stress factor C1
G.8 Bending stress factor C2
G.9 Meridional stress factor C3
G.10 Branch bending stress factor C4
H.1 Classification of materials
P.1 Design strength values
T.1 Tube to tubesheet joints: essential tests and the
      suitability of joint types for optional tests
W.1 Design data assumed for cylindrical sections
W.2 Summary of calculation for e
W.3 Derivation of Le/Ls
W.4 Design data assumed for cylindrical sections
W.5 Values required for method B
W.6 Design data assumed for cylindrical sections
W.7 Measured radii and departure from mean circle
W.8 Values of an, bn and pm(n)
W.9 Values of br(n)
Y.1 Design data
Y.2 Interpolation of table G.4 for K6
Y.3 Summary of stresses (N/mm2)
2-3-1
4-4-1 Design strength values: aluminium and aluminium
      alloys
5-7-1 Acceptance levels
5-8-1 Principal stages of inspection
Figures
Index
List of references

Defines requirements for design, construction, inspection, testing and verification of compliance of unfired fusion welded pressure vessels.