Designing a sphere 1

[Bobfromoh]

How do I use the software to design a 30' diameter sphere.
I modeled the vessel as top and bottom hemispherical heads.
The sphere is supported by legs but the program wants to attach the legs only to a shell section. Is there a way to work with this?

 

[NEGEM]

may be you should attach a strip as a shell with tiny width (around 1 inch) between the two dish ends and then attach the legs to it. But still think it should be modified by compress.

 

[StephenXmas]

Bobfromoh, NEGEM is correct about how legs should be attached to a spherical vessel. The problem is that COMPRESS does not currently allow support legs to be attached to heads. We are considering adding functionality to allow support legs to be attached to heads for this case in the future.

 

[LSThill]

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TECHNICAL REFERENE FOR DESIGN OF STEEL SPHERICAL TANKS


GB 12337 1988 STEEL SPHERICAL TANKS
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DESIGN RECOMMENDATION FOR STORAGE TAND AND THEIR SUPPORTS (1996 EDITION) ARCHITECTURAL INSTITUTE OF JAPAN

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The two Technical reference will give you detain design of STEEL SPHERICAL TANKS.

FE-PIPE is the software used to check the design of the lege of STEEL SPHERICAL TANKS

I have completed the design of 18 STEEL SPHERICAL TANKS in People’s Republic of China.

2003 I have ask DESIGN OF STEEL SPHERICAL TANKS to be added to CODEWARE COMPRESS.