Research on Opening Holes in Cylindrical Shell Based on ANSYS Simulation

Abstract

With the development of production and technology, the devices of oil refining, chemical, fertilizer and others are progressing to the direction of high parameters (high pressure, high temperature). Pressure vessels must be open, which will made the stress concentration problems more serious, and traditional design methods derived from empirically formula fails to meet the actual demand. In this paper, a theoretical result is calculated with a simplified model of the opening holes in cylindrical shell, verified by a group of solutions got by the ANSYS simulation. And it turns out that the result is rather satisfactory.