Air Cooled Heat Exchangers (ACHE) are one of the heat exchanger types frequently used in Process, Power, Steel, and several other Industries where a process system generates heat that must be...
Category: Piping Stress Analysis
What is the Stress Intensification Factor or SIF? The term SIF (Stress Intensification Factor) is too confusing for many piping engineers. That's why the following article is taken to explain the...
Definition of Cold Spring Cold Spring is the process of intentional deformation (usually accomplished by cutting short or long the pipe runs between two anchors) of piping during assembly to...
Some users of START-PROF Piping Stress Analysis software ask the same question: Why loads and displacements are not zero in a cold state? I will try to explain this phenomenon in this article....
In most organizations, there is a 3-tier checking process for every stress system for maintaining the quality of analyzed stress systems. Normally stress system is performed by one (junior or...
Tall pipe risers are used in skyscrapers, mines, etc. There are two points that the piping stress engineer should consider: Fluid weight load distribution Pipe longitudinal stability Fluid...