The 3Sm extension is an advanced post-processing tool to help utilize stress limits for the components based on ASME VIII-2 pressure vessel code. One of the most important information in the pressure vessel calculation is stress limits for the primary and secondary stresses which are restricted by ASME VIII-2 code. This tool provides them automatically. The extension offers not only margins for primary and secondary stresses but also material utilization plots and safety margin plots as well.

Moreover, the extension uses the spline interpolation for material data inputs. That kind of interpolation data gives the most accurate results.

ADVANTAGES AND SAVINGS

• Automatically created stress limits for the primary and secondary stresses;
• Eliminates exterior tools such as Excel, Matlab, etc;
• Possibility to combine strength data with creep data ;
• Material data interpolation based on spline approach;
• No need to use APDL language;

TIME SAVINGS

That tool gives an opportunity to obtain the results almost immediately. There is a great time-saving in comparison to manually created results (which involved additional tools such as Excel etc.). The extension automatically made an interpolation of material data as well as limitation criterion (1.5Sm, 3Sm).