BS PD5500(2015) : 2015

Foreword
Section 1 - General
Section 2 - Materials
Section 3 - Design
Section 4 - Manufacture and workmanship
Section 5 - Inspection and testing
Annexes
Annex A - Requirements for design where loadings
          and components are not covered by Section 3
Annex B - Requirements for cylindrical, spherical and
          conical shells under combined loadings, including
          wind and earthquakes
Annex C - Assessment of vessels subject to fatigue
Annex D - Requirements for vessels designed to operate
          below 0 degrees C
Annex E - Recommendations for welded connections of
          pressure vessels
Annex G - Recommendations for the design of local loads,
          thermal gradients, etc
Annex H - Recommendations for post-weld heat treatment
          of dissimilar ferritic steel joints
Annex J - Recommendations for pressure relief protective
          devices
Annex K - Requirements for design stresses for British
          Standard materials
Annex L - Guidance on structural tolerances
Annex M - Requirements for establishing the allowable
          external pressure for cylindrical sections outside the
          circularity limits specified in 3.6
Annex N - Requirements for vessel design and the provision
          of information concerning UK statutory requirements for
          the demonstration of the continued integrity of pressure
          vessels throughout their service life
Annex Q - Recommendations for preparation and testing of
          production control test plates
Annex R - Guidance on additional information for flat ends
          and flat plates
Annex S - Guidance on optional documentation for supply
          with vessel
Annex T - Recommendations for arc welded tube to
          tubeplate joints
Annex U - Guidance on the use of fracture mechanics
          analyses
Annex V - Requirements for testing and inspection of serially
          produced pressure vessels
Annex W - Worked examples
Annex X - Guidance for the tensile testing of
          9% nickel steel weld metal using
          strain-gauged tensile specimens
Annex Z - Guidance on the application of PD 5500 to
          pressure vessels falling within the scope of the
          European Pressure Equipment Directive
Supplements
Aluminium supplement: Requirements for aluminium and aluminium
                      alloys in the design and construction of
                      unfired fusion welded pressure vessels
Copper supplement: Requirements for copper
                   and copper alloys in the design and
                   construction of unfired fusion welded
                   or brazed pressure vessels
Duplex supplement: Requirements for duplex and
                   super duplex steels (austenitic-ferritic
                   stainless steels) in the design and
                   construction of unfired fusion welded
                   pressure vessels
Nickel supplement: Requirements for nickel and nickel
                   alloys in the design and construction of
                   unfired fusion welded pressure vessels
Titanium supplement: Requirements for titanium and
                     titanium alloys in the design and construction
                     of unfired fusion welded pressure vessels
Index
List of references

Defines requirements for the design, construction, inspection, testing and verification of compliance of new unfired fusion welded pressure vessels.