Why Software may show Zero Anchor Loads? While stress analysis and supporting considerations it is always a better engineering practice to provide line stops or axial stops or pipe anchors at the...
Category: Piping Stress Basics
Stress Analysis of PSV/PRV Piping Systems Using Caesar II | PSV Piping Stress Analysis
PSV or pressure safety valves (pressure relief valves) are a type of valve and are very common in any process industry. To protect any equipment from overpressure PSV systems are used in lines. When...
Methods for Checking Flange Leakage | Flange Leakage Calculation | Flange Leakage Analysis
What is Flange Leakage? Flange leakage is a serious problem in the piping industry. It has a tremendous potential to cause severe hazards to operating plants. Hence, the possibility of leakage...
Piping Stress Analysis is simply creating the load cases required for analysis and studying the impact of the same on the behavior of the critical piping systems. A load case can be defined as a set...
What is Piping Flexibility? Requirement of Flexibility in Piping Design
Requirement of Flexibility Providing the required flexibility for absorbing the thermal movements of the piping system is one of the important activities in piping design. A rigid piping system...
Several ASME B31 & EN 13480 Issues Needed to Know for Pipe Stress Engineer
Axial Stress from Pressure Load, Axial Force and Torsion Moment This issue leads to serious under-estimation sustained and expansion stresses in pipes and fittings in ASME B31.1-2018, ASME...