Article: saddle pressure vessel

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I can't find the source just now, because it is from a Pressure Vessels short course, but the professor suggestion was:
A = Distance from saddle center to Tangent Line = 0.4 R, where R is the vessel radius.
A < 0.2 L, where L is tangent to tangent distance.