Dear friends,
I am working on a Compressor discharge nozzle. The nozzle is inclined by 56deg with respect to vertical. At the first elbow from the nozzle, I have provided line stop. With this support configuration the nozzle loads are well within allowable.
Due to layout constraints, the elbow support is not possible. so when I moved this line stop just after the elbow the nozzle loads are increasing drastically. There is not much expansion due to this offset of support, but still the loads at nozzle are coming very high. Why is it so? Is there any other way we can reduce the nozzle loads?
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Regards,