Piping Stress Analysis
Besides evaluating the piping system’s load capabilities, piping stress analysis offers other benefits like analysing the response to dead weight thermal and pressure loads and measuring the effects of support settlement, wave, and seismic loads. Using the analysis, you can also select proper springs for necessary support, and evaluate support lift-off, friction, and gaps.
Some of the Benefits of Piping Stress Analysis for Plant Operators:
- Ensure that the piping system has enough flexibility to absorb the pipe’s thermal expansion
- Ensure Compliance with the relevant codes and standards, so that the stresses in the piping components are within allowable limits
- Maintain the nozzle loads on the piping-connected equipment within predetermined allowable ranges in accordance with applicable and allowable standards (e.g. NEMA SM 23, API 610, API 661, API 667, ASME sec III, etc.)
- Helps in choosing the appropriate kind of pipe support based on the determination of the piping stress
- Ensure pipe displacements for clash-free routing at maximum and minimum temperatures
- Helps to determine the loads and moments on the supporting structures and ensure that they are within the acceptable range in accordance with civil requirements
- Addresses issues with transient flow, relief valve discharge, fluid hammer, pulsation, mechanical vibration, and acoustic vibration in piping that are caused by dynamic forces
- Guarantees flange joints that are leak-proof
- Helps to determine unintentional pipe support disengagement
