BS PD5500(2018) : 2018

Foreword
Section 1 - General
Section 2 - Materials
Section 3 - Design
Section 4 - Manufacture and workmanship
Section 5 - Inspection and testing
Annexes
Annex A - Requirements for design where loadings
          and components are not covered by Section 3
Annex B - Requirements for cylindrical, spherical and
          conical shells under combined loadings, including
          wind and earthquakes
Annex C - Assessment of vessels subject to fatigue
Annex D - Requirements for vessels designed to operate
          below 0 degrees C
Annex E - Recommendations for welded connections of
          pressure vessels
Annex G - Recommendations for the design of local loads,
          thermal gradients, etc
Annex H - Recommendations for post-weld heat treatment
          of dissimilar ferritic steel joints
Annex J - Recommendations for pressure relief protective
          devices
Annex K - Requirements for design stresses for British
          Standard materials
Annex L - Guidance on structural tolerances
Annex M - Requirements for establishing the allowable
          external pressure for cylindrical sections outside the
          circularity limits specified in 3.6
Annex N - Requirements for vessel design and the
          provision of information concerning UK
          statutory requirements for the demonstration of
          the continued integrity of pressure vessels
          throughout their service life
Annex Q - Recommendations for preparation and
          testing of production control test plates
Annex R - Guidance on additional information for flat
          ends and flat plates
Annex S - Guidance on optional documentation for
          supply with vessel
Annex T - Recommendations for arc welded tube to
          tubeplate joints
Annex U - Guidance on the use of fracture mechanics
          analyses
Annex V - Requirements for testing and inspection
          of serially produced pressure vessels
Annex W - Worked examples
Annex X - Guidance for the tensile testing of
          9% nickel steel weld metal using
          strain-gauged tensile specimens
Annex Z - Guidance on the application of PD 5500 to
          pressure vessels falling within the scope of the
          European Pressure Equipment Directive
Supplements
Aluminium supplement: Requirements for aluminium
  and aluminium alloys in the design and construction
  of unfired fusion welded pressure vessels
Copper supplement: Requirements for copper
  and copper alloys in the design and
  construction of unfired fusion welded
  or brazed pressure vessels
Duplex supplement: Requirements for duplex and
  super duplex steels (austenitic-ferritic
  stainless steels) 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
Titanium supplement: Requirements for titanium and
  titanium alloys in the design and construction
  of unfired fusion welded pressure vessels
Index
List of references

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