The Kellogg Method reloaded

Hints:
No.1 “Assuming the equivalent pressure is the pressure that will create the same amount of gasket stress as the pipe load does…”
from the famous article “Evaluation of Flanged connections due to piping load” of Mr. Peng.
No.2 “Above equivalence is believed to be conservative because the maximum gasket stress produced by the piping load exists
only at the extreme edge of the gasket, whereas the stress generated by the pressure is uniform” from the same source.
No.3 The “Theory of Plates and Shells” by S. Timoshenko and S. Woinowsky-Krieger, Copyright 1940 by the United
Engineering Trustees, Inc was on the Kellogg desks.

F
F
Q= is the linear reaction (“stress”) on the gasket
2π a
Q Q
a

A Circular Plate under the force F

+
π
4
M -p pa pa πa 3 p
∫
p
V= cos θ and M = 4 cos θ a 2 cos θ dθ =
4 4 4
0
a -V
V [Ref: Timoshenko/ paragraph Circular plates under linear
G loads]

A Circular Plate under so

the bending moment M
4M
theta G=2a p=
πa 3
pa 4 M a M
and Vmax =
= 3 = 2 is the maximum of the
4 πa 4 πa
linear reaction on the gasket (“the maximum gasket stress
produced by the piping load exists only at the extreme edge of the gasket”)

=
p
F M F p πa 2
F F Q + Vmax = + 2 = e = e is the maximum
2 πa πa 2 πa 2 πa
a “stress” on the gasket, Fe is the equivalent force and pe is the
G
Q+Vmax Q+Vmin equivalent pressure due to this equivalent force.
Fe is the force that can
do this maximum reaction That means:
on gasket.
2 πa F 2 1
F + 2 M = p e πa 2 or 2
+ M = pe
And Fe can be counted in terms πa πa a πa 2
of an equivalent pressure.
However: "whereas the stress
generated by the pressure is F 2M 4F 16M
uniform..." Finally: p e = 2
+ 3 = 2
+
πa πa a=
G πG πG 3
2