Doctoral Dissertations

Abstract

"An absence of a comprehensive procedure for design of coal-fueled power plant ductwork currently exists in the publicly available literature. This dissertation presents such a procedure.

An overview of the ductwork design environment, including major components of the air and flue gas flow paths, design loads and temperatures, corrosion considerations, and physical configurations, is given. Design criteria for materials, corrosion inhibition, minimum plate thicknesses, temperature effects, allowable stresses and deflections, and vibrations are proposed. A detailed design procedure based on the allowable stress design philosophy is presented, and computer programs implementing the design procedure are provided. An alternate design procedure based on the Load and Resistance Factor Design approach is also discussed.

The allowable stress design procedure is applied to a horizontal section of rectangular ductwork and the results are compared to a previous design accomplished by hand calculations. The proposed design procedure provides savings in both ductwork material and fabrication labor, and consumes significantly less design time than the by-hand design approach"--Abstract, page ii.

Advisor(s)

Yu, Wei-wen, 1924-

Committee Member(s)

Senne, Joseph H.
Keith, Harold D. (Harold Dean), 1941-
McBean, Robert P.
Ho, C. Y. (Chung You), 1933-1988
Andrews, William A., 1922-2009

Department(s)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Degree Name

D.Eng. in Civil Engineering

Publisher

University of Missouri--Rolla

Publication Date

Spring 1986

Pagination

viii, 250 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-45).

Rights

© 1986 Stanley Pearce Rader, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Dissertation - Open Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Subject Headings

Load Factor Design
Steel -- Cold working
Steel, Structural
Strains and stresses

Thesis Number

T 5266

Print OCLC #

15153615

Electronic OCLC #

904810532

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