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Step by Step Methods for WRC 107 and WRC

297 Checking in Caesar II
 19th September 2014  want2learn  Caesar II  6 Comments

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Introduction:
Whenever Pressure Vessel or Heat exchanger (Static
Equipments) nozzle loads exceeds the allowable values Stress/Deformation Anal.
provided by Vendors (Equipment manufacturer) or soilvision.com
standard project specific tables (guidelines), the piping Simple & Effective so you can focus on the
stress professional is permitted to use WRC 107/297 (or solution not the problem!
any other FEA) to check the stresses at the Nozzle-Shell
junction point and check the stresses with allowable Pressure Vessel Supplier
values provided by Codes. If the stresses are found to be
within allowable limit then the load and moment values
can be accepted without any hesitation. However there
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are some boundary conditions which must be met before
using WRC. This small write up will try to explain the DME Pipe Guides & Slides
required details for performing WRC 107 and WRC 297
using Caesar II and step by step method for performing WRC check.Both WRC 107 and WRC 297 deal with “local”
stress states in the vicinity of an attachment to a vessel or pipe. As indicated by their titles, WRC-107 can be used for
attachments to both spherical and cylindrical shells while WRC-297 only addresses cylinder to cylinder connections.
While both bulletins are used for nozzle connection. WRC-107 is based on un-penetrated shell, while WRC-297
assumes a circular opening in vessel. Furthermore, WRC-107 defines values for solid and hollow attachments of
either round and rectangular shape for spherical shells but drops the solid/hollow distinction for attachments to
cylindrical shells. WRC-297, on the other hand, is intended only for cylindrical nozzles attached to cylindrical
shells.
Boundary condition for using WRC 107:
To determine whether WRC 107 bulletin can be used for local stress checking the following geometry guidelines must
be met:
1. d/D<0.33

2. Dm/T=(D-T)/T>50 (Here, T=Vessel Thickness, Dm=mean diameter of vessel)

Boundary condition for using WRC 297:
To determine whether WRC 107 bulletin can be used for local stress checking the following geometry guidelines must
be met:
1. d/D<=0.5
2. d/t>=20 and d/t<=100 (Here t=nozzle thickness)
3. D/T>=20 and D/T<=2500
4. d/T>=5
5. Nozzle must be isolated (it may not be close to a discontinuity) – not within 2√(DT) on vessel and not within
2√(dt) on nozzle
Difference between WRC 107 and 297:
The major differences other than the boundary conditions mentioned above are listed below:
1. WRC 107 calculates only the vessel stresses while WRC 297 calculates Vessel stresses along with nozzle stresses.
2. WRC 297 is applicable only for normally (perpendicular) intersecting two cylindrical shells whereas WRC 107 is
applicable for cylindrical as well as spherical shells of any intersection.
3. The attachments for WRC 297 checking must be hollow but WRC 107 analyzes cylindrical or rectangular
attachments which can be rigid or hollow.4. WRC 297 is not applicable for nozzles protruding inside the vessel (Fig
1), Tangential Nozzle (Fig2), Nozzle at angle (Fig 3).

5. Typically, WRC-107 is used for local stress calculations and WRC-297 is used for flexibility calculations.
Limitations of WRC:
Other than boundary conditions mentioned above there are few more limitations as mentioned below:
1. Neither bulletin considers shell reinforcement nor do they address stress due to pressure.
2. CAESAR II ,PVElite & CodeCalc will not extrapolate data from the charts when geometric limitations mentioned
above are exceeded. Extrapolated data may not be appropriate.

Inputs required for performing WRC checking:

The following documents must be ready with you before you start to perform WRC 107/297 checking:
1. Equipment Details/ General Arrangement Drawing
2. Nozzle details
3. Line list
Step by Step methods for performing WRC 107/ WRC 297 calculation in Caesar II:

Step 1: Perform Static analysis of the stress system and find out the nozzle loads required for checking local stresses.
Step 2: Enter into the WRC module from Caesar II. Provide a file name for your job

Step 3: Following screen will appear. Enter the Nozzle data as mentioned below:
Step 4: Now enter the vessel details i.e, diameter, wall thickness, corrosion allowance and material.
Step 5: Input vessel and Nozzle direction cosines, Internal design pressure and load and moments values from
Caesar static analysis output (Sustained, Expansion and occasional as applicable).
Step 6: On options it is suggested not to change any parameter. Now click on analysis to read the results. The output
will inform you whether WRC checking is passing or failing. Use results as per your requirement.
For entering loads and moments as per local convention following description and figure can be used for converting
global forces into local forces:

As shown in fig, Stretch your right hand with Middle finger along the Vessel Centerline. Index Finger should
parallel to nozzle centerline and should point in a direction from nozzle towards entering vessel. And Thumb should
be perpendicular to both. Then1.Direction of Index Finger represents +P.
2.Direction of Middle Finger represents +VL
3.Direction of Thumb represents +VC
4.ML will be positive if by applying right hand thumb rule to ML, direction of thumb is same as that of VC.
5.MC will be positive if by applying right hand thumb rule to MC, direction of thumb is opposite to direction of VL.
6.MT will be positive if by applying right hand thumb rule to MT, direction of thumb is opposite to direction of P.Get
the loads and moments from CAESAR output. Compare the direction of Forces and Moments in CAESAR output with
conventional Force and Moment directions and enter the values of P, VL, VC, MT, MC and ML accordingly.

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This article has 6 comments

hardik pilojpara
Tuesday 17 September 2013, 7:29 am

HI ANUP,
GREAT TO SEE YOUR BLOG!! AS ALWAYS WELL EXPLAINED..

KEEP IT UP!!

hardik pilojpara
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Anup Kumar Dey

Tuesday 17 September 2013, 8:55 am

Thanks a lot…

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kagg
Monday 21 October 2013, 9:37 am

Regarding Note 5, where is it based that WRC-107 is typically used for local load calculations whereas
WRC-297 for nozzle flexibility? If the loads calculated by WRC-297 are higher and/or nozzle local loads
are exceeded, would you still go by WRC-107 and determine the connection to be safe?

I am puzzled by this note, although I do not have a clear position on the issue myself.

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Farhan
Monday 23 December 2013, 6:22 pm

Nice Blog,
 Best Regards,

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Kadappa Halingali
Wednesday 26 February 2014, 12:10 pm

It’s a very very useful & nice blog. Thanks a lot for knowledge sharing.

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white_crow
Thursday 10 July 2014, 9:27 am

Very nice blog !!

Thanks for sharing

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