Dear Experts,

recently i am doing a pipe stress analysis for a metering skid, my client asking for the maximum permissible load on the flange connections of the metering skid.

1) can CAESARII Softawre provide the permissble load when consider as an anchor point?

2) should i ask my structural skid designer (with STAAD Pro Software) to provide the permissible load for the flanges as the loads are transferred to the skid?

3) Whose responsibiliites to provide anchor point and the nozzle/flange loads (Fx, Fy, Fz & Mx, My Mz) piping/structural/equipment designer?


please advise me.


Thanks & Regards

Baskar

1) No, all CAESAR II will give you is the reactions that are applied to the connections as a result of the loads (temperatures and pressures) that you apply to the system.

2) You should give the Structural Group the reaction loads you compute, and let them decide any limits or pass/fail state. If they don't like something, they'll come back to you.

3) Someone (structural, equipment designer) must give you some indication regarding the stiffness of the connections. If you don't have this, assume a rigid anchor. This will result in larger reaction loads, but you're conservative.

Dear experts:

Any idea or guideline to allowable loads on a skid of pig launcher or pig receiver, I work in a detail engineering for a pipeline, but these equipments are scope of another contractor. The mechanical department doesn´t know about it

B regards.

LFC