Onshore Structural Design – Step By Step Calculations

What you'll learn
Understand with a broad view what, petrochemical and industrial facilities are. And how they relate to onshore structural design.
Know the main structural components of petrochemical, power plant and industrial facilities.
Know how to design 4 structural components of a petrochemical and plant facilities.
Understand how to use codes of practice for onshore structural design.
Requirements
At least 2 years of studying civil or structural engineering. Computer skills required, especially for structural design software.
Description
This course is a broad overview of one field of civil engineering, namely onshore structural design. The different structures involved in a plant facility is discussed along with the design of the supports. The basic structures include: horizontal vessels, vertical vessels, above ground steel storage tanks and pipe racks. A birds eye view of different plant facility types is simplified. This has been made possible as plants, petrochemical and industrial facilities comprise of similar structures, although for different purposes. Thus for someone new to this field of civil engineering, this course takes one to a professional level.The course starts off with an elevated view of plant, petrochemical and industrial facilities. With this view, a summary of the similarity between the different facilities is described. Afterwards, considerations for the layout design of a plant facility is covered. Then focus shifts to atmosphere for explosion, ATEX zones.Next up is the design of supports for horizontal vessels. For this course, horizontal vessels are subdivided into 2 types. Heat exchangers and horizontal vessels. The different load cases and the side of the horizontal support to be designed is highlighted. Afterwards, vertical vessels are designed for. For vertical vessels, the two important supporting components are the pedestal and the footing segments. The criteria for selection of either a square or an octagonal pedestal/footing is described.Afterwards, the design of above steel storage tank is done. Unlike the horizontal and vertical vessels which are supplied by a manufacturer, the above ground storage tank is in whole designed by a structural engineer.The course closes with a look at pipe rack configuration design and load estimation. The pipe rack is basically a frame structure. How to generate the distance between the frames is covered in the course. As well as selection of structural members and estimation of load.Included in the course are downloadable manual calculation sheets. These calculation sheets are to be studied and then the steps replicated for the calculation assignment. References to code have been done in a stepwise manner to aid understanding of manual calculations and the relevant codes of practice.In order to validate the manual calculations, for personal confidence, installation of STAAD Foundation software is necessary. Calculation sheets for this software have also been included and is a way to validate the manual calculations from the book. The input into STAAD Foundation are also downloadable.
Overview
Section 1: Introduction and Plant Layout Considerations
Lecture 1 Preview Video
Lecture 2 Welcome and Introduction
Lecture 3 Plant Layout Design and Considerations
Lecture 4 Atmosphere for Explosion, ATEX
Lecture 5 Plant Layout Facility 1
Section 2: Horizontal Vessels Support Design
Lecture 6 Horizontal Vessels
Lecture 7 Design Parameters and Considerations for the two categories of horizontal vessel
Lecture 8 Manual Calculations for Horizontal Vessels
Lecture 9 Manual Calculations for Heat Exchangers and Horizontal Vessels
Lecture 10 Input into STAAD Foundation Interface
Lecture 11 CAD Calculations for Heat Exchangers and Horizontal Vessels
Lecture 12 STAAD Foundation Advanced tutorial - Horizontal vessel
Lecture 13 Assignment for Horizontal Vessels
Section 3: Vertical Vessels Support Design
Lecture 14 Vertical Vessels
Lecture 15 Manual Calculation Sheets for Vertical Vessels and Reference Document
Lecture 16 Input into STAAD Foundation for Vertical Vessels
Lecture 17 CAD Calculations for Vertical Vessels
Lecture 18 STAAD Foundation Advanced tutorial - Vertical Vessels
Lecture 19 Assignment for Vertical Vessels
Section 4: Above Ground Steel Storage Tank Design
Lecture 20 Above Ground Steel Storage Tank
Lecture 21 Manual Calculations for Above Ground Steel Storage Tank
Lecture 22 Manual Calculation Sheets for Above Ground Steel Storage Tanks
Lecture 23 Input into STAAD Foundation for Above Ground Steel Storage Tanks
Lecture 24 CAD Calculations for Above Ground Steel Storage Tank
Lecture 25 STAAD Foundation Advanced tutorial - Above Ground Steel Storage Tank
Lecture 26 Assignment for Above Ground Steel Storage Tank
Section 5: Pipe Rack Arrangement and Loading
Lecture 27 How to Generate Loads on a Pipe Rack
Lecture 28 Generating Pipe Rack Dimensions
Lecture 29 Load Estimation for Pipe Rack
Lecture 30 Manual Calculations for Load Estimates on Pipe Rack
Lecture 31 Assignment for Pipe Rack
Lecture 32 List of Codes
Lecture 33 Conclusion of the Course
This course is most ideal for civil engineers who are still undergraduates and also for those with a low number of years of experience.
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