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API 650 Annular Plate Annex M

This document discusses design considerations for welded steel tanks used for oil storage. It provides tables with yield strength reduction factors for different tank bottom minimum specified yield strengths at various temperatures. It also describes requirements for tank bottoms with diameters exceeding 30 meters to have butt-welded annular bottom plates. Additionally, it presents a simplified procedure and formulas that can be used to evaluate shell-to-bottom junctions in elevated temperature tanks for liquid head and temperature cycles, along with exclusions for when such an analysis is not needed.

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API 650 Annular Plate Annex M

This document discusses design considerations for welded steel tanks used for oil storage. It provides tables with yield strength reduction factors for different tank bottom minimum specified yield strengths at various temperatures. It also describes requirements for tank bottoms with diameters exceeding 30 meters to have butt-welded annular bottom plates. Additionally, it presents a simplified procedure and formulas that can be used to evaluate shell-to-bottom junctions in elevated temperature tanks for liquid head and temperature cycles, along with exclusions for when such an analysis is not needed.

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Table M.1a-Yield Strength Reduction Factors (SI)

Minimum Specified Yield Strength (MPa)


Temperature
< 310 MPa From 2 310 to < 380 MPa 2 380 MPa
(OC)
94 0.91 0.88 0.92
150 0.88 0.81 0.87
200 0.85 0.75 0.83
260 0.80 0.70 0.79
NOTE Linear interpolation shall be applied for intermediate values.

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Table M.1b-Yield Strength Reduction Factors (USC)

Minimum Specified Yield Strength (lbf/in. 2)


Temperature

J (oF) < 45,000 lbf/in.2 2 45,000 to< 55,000 lbf/in.2 2 55,000 lbf/in.2

201 0.91 0.88 0.92


·) 300 0.88 0.81 0.87
J 400 0.85 0.75 0.83
J 500 0.80 0.70 0.79
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NOTE Linear interpolation shall be applied for intermediate values.

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) M.4 Tank Bottoms
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M.4.1 Tanks with diameters exceeding 30 m (1 00 ft) shall have butt-welded annular bottom plates (see 5.1.5.6).
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) M.4.2 The following simplified procedure is offered as a recommended design practice for elevated-temperature
tanks where significant temperature differences between the tank bottom and the lowest shell course are expected.
The use of the procedure is not intended to be mandatory. It is recognized that other analytical procedures can be
employed as well as that operating conditions may preclude the need for such a procedure.
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Shell-to-bottom junctions in elevated-temperature tanks may be evaluated for liquid head and temperature cycles with
I the formulas, procedures, and exclusions given below. (See Conditions a and b in the note below, which exclude
tanks from such analyses.)
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.) NOTE A cyclic design life evaluation need not be made if all the criteria of either of the following conditions are met.

a) The design temperature difference (7) is less than or equal to 220 oc (400 oF), K is less than or equal to 2.0, and
Cis less than or equal to 0.5 .
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b) A heated liquid head, in feet, greater than or equal to 0.3(Dt)D.5 is normally maintained in the tank, except for an
) occasional cool-down (about once a year) to ambient temperatures; Tis less than or equal to 260 oc (500 oF); and
K is less than or equal to 4.0. (For background information on the development of the stress formulas, design life
) criteria, and C and B factors, see G. G. Karcher, "Stresses at the Shell-to-Bottom Junction of Elevated-Temperature
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