The document discusses the design automation of internal pressure vessels. It notes that pressure vessel industries aim to optimize development while minimizing costs, with much of the costs being committed at the design stage. It then discusses regulations for pressure vessel design, fabrication, and operation set by engineering authorities. Finally, it introduces the Pressure Vessel Design Automation (PVDA) system proposed in the dissertation, which consists of two modules - a PVD application for calculating design parameters using Java, and customized Creo Parametric for pressure vessel modeling. The system aims to automate major activities of pressure vessel development like material selection, calculations, modeling, and generating fabrication drawings in an interactive, low-cost manner.

1. Design Automation of Internal Pressure Vessel
Submitted By
Ankit Piyushbhai Shah
(120010708003)
Under guidance of
Prof. Kalpesh N. Shah
Assistant Professor
Mech. Engg. Dept.
A.D.I.T.
Prof. Harsh B. Joshi
Assistant Professor
Mech. Engg. Dept.
A.D.I.T.
Abstract
The feat of pressure vessel industries depends on their ability to make high quality
products at the lowest cost. The pressure vessel industry goal is to optimize the development.
To find lower cost, it may be worthwhile to focus on the design stage of pressure vessel
development. Mostly cost of the product is committed on the design phase. This cost is
frequently not discovered until it is allocated in the product evolution procedure.
Pressure variance is unsafe for pressure vessel development. Many incurable accidents
have occurred in the history of pressure vessel. Consequently, pressure vessel design,
fabrication, and operation are regulated by engineering authorities assisted by the legislature.
The description of a pressure vessel is diverged from country to country, but mainly involve
the parameters such as operating pressure and operating temperature. Generally, the
worldwide American Society for Mechanical Engineering (ASME) codes and standards used
for design, fabrication, testing of pressure vessels.

2. Pressure vessel industries are using pressure vessel design software like PV-Elite,
Compress, etc., which serves design base on ASME codes and standards. This software has
some limitation like fabrication drawing. This software cannot generate the fabrication
drawing. Presently, the industry must require AutoCAD draftsman to generate the fabrication
drawing. The dissertation describes solutions of present limitation by using Pressure Vessel
Design Automation (PVDA) System. PVDA system organizes into two modules. The first
module is PVD Application and second module is Customize Creo Parametric. PVD
Application calculates the design parameter of the pressure vessel. PVD Application
developed by high level computer programming language Java. Pressure vessel geometry and
modeling is carried out by Customize Creo Parametric. Creo Parametric customization
carried out by Map - Keys and Pro Programming. The proposed system is capable to
automate all major activities of the pressure vessel development such as selection of material,
calculate design parameters, modeling of pressure vessel components, fabrication drawing
etc. The system is user interactive with low-cost of implication.