scope:

The S 3 series of the AD 2000-Merkblätter provides information on allowing for the additional forces in pressure vessel walls; see also Subclause 4.5 of AD 2000-Merkblatt B 0. They also provide information for those cases where the verification of the stability is also to include the effects on the retaining and supporting structures, as well as on those components of the pressure vessel itself which are subject to pressure stresses. The procedures for these are regulated in this AD 2000-Merkblatt. Possible solutions for some of the structural shapes which frequently occur are also given