Posted by: Eldar313
How to activate pressure stiffening for streight - 05/14/09 06:56 AM
Hello,
Can anyone tell me pleas,how to activate pressure stiffening for streight pipe in caesar as I understand in confg. it's possible to activate pressure stiff for bends only?
Thanks
Posted by: Richard Ay
Re: How to activate pressure stiffening for streight - 05/14/09 07:54 AM
This is not an option in c2.
Posted by: Sid.
Re: How to activate pressure stiffening for streight - 05/14/09 08:10 AM
In caesar II main window Go to
Tools> Configure/Setup > select the pull down menu of Use Pressure Stiffening
now press F1 on your keypad.
partial quote
"Pressure Stiffening effects are defined in Appendix D of B31.1 and B31.3."
note 7 of the Appendix D of B31.3
There you will find the answer to your question. Or perhaps you wanted to activate Bourdon's effect option #1 for the straight pipe? In that case you case do F1 in the same way.
cheers
Posted by: Dave Diehl
Re: How to activate pressure stiffening for streight - 05/14/09 08:38 AM
Don't confuse pressure stiffening and structural response due to pressure.
Using F=KX, pressure stiffening changes K and structural response due to pressure sets F.
Some piping codes establish the K change for thin wall bends - that's the C2 pressure stiffening switch.
Some engineeers wish to include the structural response due to pressure in their analysis. You can add this to your C2 analysis by activating the "Bourdopn pressure effects". There are two flavors for this switch - 1) translation and 2) translation & bending.