From last few months few of the readers are asking to provide some guidelines for stress analysis of Plastic Piping System. This video tutorial by Mr. Alex Matveev (Developer of PASS/START-PROF Software) will explain the steps for stress analysis of plastic i.e, PVC, PP, PB, PVDF and HDPE piping using PASS/Start-Prof Software(Widely used stress analysis software in Russia-Used since 1965). Hope it will be useful for all piping engineers.
The article will cover the following points in several parts:
How to create a simple plastic piping model in START-PROF software and run the analysis.
Stress Analysis Theory for analyzing plastic piping systems following Codes/Standards.
How the plastic piping system works.
In part 1 of this article one simple plastic piping system is modeled and its analysis methodology is shown.
I am a Mechanical Engineer turned into a Piping Engineer. Currently, I work in a reputed MNC as a Senior Piping Stress Engineer. I am very much passionate about blogging and always tried to do unique things. This website is my first venture into the world of blogging with the aim of connecting with other piping engineers around the world.
4 thoughts on “Tutorial: Stress Analysis of Plastic Piping System using PASS/START-PROF Software”
How to do analysis of piping with material Polypropylene (PP) in the absence of software/tool shown in the videos
Hello, the HDPE or Pressure PVC pipes, can I study stress analysis of them in CAESAR II? if not can this software PASS/START-PROF, have the ability of study for buried pressurized network.
the case I have is PVC schedule 80 pipe of an underground water network .
There’s no such functionality in CAESAR.
START-PROF functionality is much wider.
You can learn buried piping analysis in PASS/START-PROF here:
https://passuite.com/start#resources-tab see Capabilities for Oil & Gas Gathering, Upstream and Midstream Pipelines
and video on youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/PASSuite/videos
trial version: https://demo.passuite.com/
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How to do analysis of piping with material Polypropylene (PP) in the absence of software/tool shown in the videos
It’s almost impossible, especially for complex piping configurations.
Hello, the HDPE or Pressure PVC pipes, can I study stress analysis of them in CAESAR II? if not can this software PASS/START-PROF, have the ability of study for buried pressurized network.
the case I have is PVC schedule 80 pipe of an underground water network .
There’s no such functionality in CAESAR.
START-PROF functionality is much wider.
You can learn buried piping analysis in PASS/START-PROF here:
https://passuite.com/start#resources-tab see Capabilities for Oil & Gas Gathering, Upstream and Midstream Pipelines
and video on youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/PASSuite/videos
trial version: https://demo.passuite.com/