Modelling of pressure equipment bolted flange connections

The bachelor thesis deals with computational modeling of flange connections. Due to its separability, bolted flange connections are a frequently used in piping systems or pressure vessels. For the right functionality of the connection, it is necessary to ensure the required tightness. In order to be able to describe the tightness, it is necessary to know the stresses and deformations in all parts of the connection. These days, standard calculation methods are at a high level of accuracy, on the other hand, in order to achieve this accuracy, they have to follow a lot of corrections, in which the original model based on the strength of material theory should be lost. The aim of bachelor thesis is to create computational models based on the strength of materials theory. Computational models are created to illustrate the application of strength of materials theory. At the end of the thesis, the results using several models will be summarized and compared