TY - CONF A1 - Sklorz, Christian A1 - Otremba, Frank A1 - Reich, Franziska T1 - Limit load analysis of pressurized containers T2 - IMECE 2014 - ASME International mechanical engineering congress and exposition (Proceedings) N2 - Limit load analysis is a well known method to calculate the allowable design pressure of container components. A limit load of a pressurized container is achieved, when the stress of a wall and the flow stress are equal. In the following paper the transferability of limit load analysis from small scale tank containers up to large scale containers (railway tank) are investigated. Finite element calculations are carried out and compared with experimental results. It can be concluded that the limit load analysis works very well. Furthermore, the yield strength of the material should be used as flow stress. T2 - IMECE 2014 - ASME International mechanical engineering congress and exposition CY - Montreal, Quebec, Canada DA - 2014-11-14 PY - 2014 SN - 978-0-7918-4958-3 SP - Paper 36334, 1 EP - 5 AN - OPUS4-32316 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -