Jacket pipe

Posted by: M.Mohammad

Jacket pipe - 11/03/10 04:45 AM

Hello Dears

I've modeled a jacket system in the software. I's included some bends and miters. After running it will be shown on the destctop:"Node 15 already exists at the BEND NEAR POINT on element 15 to 20. Do not try to respecify". What is it and what should I do?
I've attached a simplified file from that.

Thanks
Posted by: Loren Brown

Re: Jacket pipe - 11/03/10 08:37 AM

You need to delete the Node 2, Angle 2 entries in your bend specification because you are modeling this element fitting-to-fitting and the From Node already is at the near weld point of the bend, which is where Angle 2 = 0 degrees is also located.
Posted by: danb

Re: Jacket pipe - 11/12/10 01:22 PM

Alternatively, uncheck Bend box and select again Bend. Usually works.

Regards,
Posted by: Shahid Rafiq

Re: Jacket pipe - 05/01/13 12:41 AM

in my model, the element length before of bend was same as bend radius. By running the analysis, I got this error message. As a solution I decreased the length of the element before this and increased the length at the bend and the error message disappeared.

danb, your method did not work in my case!