American Petroleum Institute's pressure vessel and tank committee recently concluded a 5-year effort to revise Standard 650 that provides design rules for reasonable margins against failure of ...

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This is the second and final article reviewing the major revisions to API Standard 650 that provides design rules for reasonable margins against failure of petroleum storage tanks due to imposed loads ...