Equipment Component and Compliance

WRC Bulletin 107(537)

The Welding Research Council Bulletin 107 (WRC 107) has been used extensively since 1965
to estimate local stresses in vessel/attachment junctions. There are three editions of the WRC
107 bulletin available in the software. You can set the default using Tools > Configure/Setup.
For more information about the options available in the editor, see Configuration and
Environment (on page 48).
In 2010, WRC Bulletin 537 was released. According to the foreword of WRC Bulletin
537, "WRC 537 provides exactly the same content in a more useful and clear format. It is not an
update or a revision of 107." CAESAR II uses the graphs from Bulletin 107. Bulletin 537 simply
provides equations in place of the curves found in Bulletin 107.
The WRC 107 Bulletin provides an analytical tool to evaluate the vessel stresses in the
immediate vicinity of a nozzle. You can use this method to compute the stresses at both the
inner and outer surfaces of the vessel wall, and report the stresses in the longitudinal and
circumferential axes of the vessel/nozzle intersection. The convention adopted by WRC 107 to
define the applicable orientations of the applied loads and stresses for both spherical and
cylindrical vessels are shown below.

Spherical Shells Cylindrical Shells

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