Pressure vessel designer needs to understand it is important for a pressure vessel designer to understand the nature of loading and

d the structural response to the loading.

Because..
This generally decides what type of analysis needs to be performed, as well as what would be the magnitude of the allowable stresses or strains.

Classification of loading..
Generally the loads acting on a structure can be classified as sustained, deformation controlled, or thermal.

Steady manner or Cyclic manner

These three load types may be applied in a steady or a cyclic manner.

Respond of structureis elastic

When the applied load is steady, The structure is safe from collapse When the load is applied cyclically a failure due to fatigue is likely; this is termed as a failure due to high cycle fatigue.

When the response is elastic in some regions of the structure and plastic in others
It produces an unacceptably large deformation produced by both sustained and deformation-controlled loads. Cyclic loads produce plastic deformations that alternate in tension and compression and cause fatigue failure, termed low cycle fatigue distribution of loads could be of such a magnitude that it produces plastic deformations in some regions when initially applied, but upon removal these deformations become elastic, and subsequent loading results in predominantly elastic action. This is termed shakedown. Under cyclic loading fatigue failure is likely and because of elastic action, this would be termed as low cycle fatigue.

 . When the sustained loading (due to bending or tension) is such that the entire cross-section becomes plastic, gross collapse of the structure takes place The repeated plastic straining or ratcheting is sometimes termed incremental collapse. If a structure is repeatedly loaded to progressively higher levels, one can imagine that at some highly stressed region a stage will be reached when the plastic strain will accumulate during each cycle of load, a situation that must be avoided.

 Sustained loads in brittle materials or in ductile materials at low temperatures could result in brittle fracture, which is a form of structural collapse.