<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div id="yiv5940529079"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="yiv5940529079yui_3_13_0_1_1399062090988_3073">I have spotted the ABS diagrams and specifications for re-enforcement and butt welds at conical to cylinder transitions. I am somewhat unclear however as to terminating at the head.</div><div id="yiv5940529079yui_3_13_0_9_1399062090988_6"><br></div><div id="yiv5940529079yui_3_13_0_9_1399062090988_7">For example, the diagrams in the 2014 ABS underwater vehicles and hyperbaric chamber publication shows conical transitions either bordered by a cylinder at either end, or simply open at the small end???</div><div
id="yiv5940529079yui_3_13_0_9_1399062090988_9"><br></div><div id="yiv5940529079yui_3_13_0_9_1399062090988_10">I want to terminate the small end of a conical transition directly to a small diameter hemi-head without another straight section, but I am unclear as to whether or not that is acceptable
in practice.</div><div id="yiv5940529079yui_3_13_0_9_1399062090988_12"><br></div><div id="yiv5940529079yui_3_13_0_9_1399062090988_13">Joe</div></div></div></div></div></body></html>