Error Code 827 - CONICAL SHELL UNDER INTERNAL PRESSURE: insufficient thickness.


Question:

The following message appears in AutoPIPE Vessel, how to avoid it?

 

827       CONICAL SHELL UNDER INTERNAL PRESSURE: insufficient thickness.

Given the following Pressure Vessel configuration:

Answer: 

in this case, this message is due to a bad program behavior that attempts to align the cone's thickness with that of the adjacent shell, which is unnecessary.

There is no workaround; the message can be ignored, and the calculation results are correct. 

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