impact pressure stiffening

Dear all,

Pressure Effects
Design pressure shall be used for longitudinal and hoop stress calculations. For flanged or clamped joints, the Design pressure shall be used. The impact pressure stiffening and pressure elongation shall be considered for high pressure pipe work (600# rating and above).

can someone explain in briefly how we considered in analysis?.plz

- pressure elongation

http://65.57.255.42/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=40017

-pressure stiffening 4.5 vs 5.1

danb,

It means that pressure stiffening is always considered in CAESAR II from version 5.1 to 5.3 or say it is default in the software.

It is no longer available. I have to find the post where Dave or Richard explain why.

Regards,

Found it:

http://65.57.255.42/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8769#Post8769

Regards,

Thanks danb..

I had found also another post that explained this matter.

Welcome,

Can you insert the link? In this way it will be useful also for others.

Regards,

Try this:

[email:http://65.57.255.42/ubbthreads/ubbthread...h=true#Post4274]http://65.57.255.42/ubbthreads/ubbthread...h=true#Post4274[/email]