STRESS IN ASME PRESSURE VESSEL, BOILER, AND NUCLEAR COMPONENTS fully revises and updates the 2003 text, Design of Plate and Shell Structures, is written primarily for advanced students and professional engineers interested in stress loads and design of plates and shell components in compliance with pressure vessel, boiler, and nuclear standards. It covers basic aspects of theories and gives examples for the design of components due to internal and external loads as well as other loads such as wind and dead loads.Various derivations are kept relatively simple and the resultant equations are simplified to a level where the engineer may apply them directly to design problems. The examples given throughout this book are intended to show the engineer the level of analysis needed to achieve a safe design based on a given required degree of accuracy. This book is also appropriate for advanced engineering courses and professional training courses. Updates and changes includes an increased Mechanical Engineering focus; more specific and practical code-related guidelines; non-mechanical material related to structures has been removed; and the content has been fully updated and revised.