construction of tanks

[kvaibhav]

dear all,

we constructing steel tanks for storage of crude oil, our designer has suggested thickness for top shell as 40 mm and next to top shell as 10 mm......request your expert comment for feasibility of same at [email protected]

 

[begreen]

This is the wrong website for the question. No one burning crude here that I know of. Perhaps you will have better success with a site like:

http://www.toddsweldinginc.com/mudtanks.html
http://www.springerlink.com/content/g7u3513014077056/

or to see what can happen when it goes wrong:
http://www.twi.co.uk/j32k/protected/band_13/oilgas_casedown25.html