Dear Richard Ay and Dave,
I have one doubt on deciding the spring hanger selection,
1. Usually the spring hanger is designed for the operating temperature rather than design temperature, am i right.
2. In my case, there are three different operating temperature conditions for sizing the spring hanger, the following load cases are
L1 = W - HGR (Not active in output)
L2 = W+D1+T2+P1- HGR (D1 is disp)(Not active in output)
L3 = W+D1+T3+P2- HGR (Not active in output)
L4 = W+D1+T4+P3- HGR (Not active in output)
and the remaining loads cases as follows as per the code requirement,
My query is, in the above load cases, CAESAR-II by default provide the load case 1. In load case L2, the default temperature caesar-II selects is T1 (in my case that is design temperature and not required for hanger design, so i manually changed it to T2 as operating temperature).
The remaining two cases (i.e.) L3 and L4 is not provided by Caesar-II as default, and i manually added the two load cases for hanger design and i ran the analysis as usual.
From the output report of the hanger table, i want to confirm, on what operating temperature case, the spring support is designed, whether the Caesar-II is selected the spring support based on Load Case L2 or L3 or L4. Since the hanger table doesn't have the temperature information.
Please clarify, if i am wrong.
Thankyou.
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