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#75070 - 10/15/20 02:39 AM B31.4 Buried Pipeline - Huge Stresses and Displacements
maminu Offline
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Registered: 01/21/08
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Loc: Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Hi,

I have a CAESAR II model for a 6" buried pipeline. Even the sustained case W+P1 is giving very very large over stress and displacements in the region of thousands of percentages overstress and kilometers in displacement which don't make any sense at all. Can any one help? Has anyone experienced this before? Is it a bug with the software? I just completed the B31.8 pipeline next to it without any problems.

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#75071 - 10/15/20 06:37 AM Re: B31.4 Buried Pipeline - Huge Stresses and Displacements [Re: maminu]
maminu Offline
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Registered: 01/21/08
Posts: 29
Loc: Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Found the problem. A bug in the fluid density field. It's showing kg/cu.m instead of kg/cu.cm.

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#75074 - 10/15/20 09:04 AM Re: B31.4 Buried Pipeline - Huge Stresses and Displacements [Re: maminu]
Michael_Fletcher Offline
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Registered: 01/29/10
Posts: 1025
Loc: Louisiana, US
Well, you now know how the pipe will react if you try to fill it with Earth-sized white dwarf star matter. smile

I generally recommend inputting it into CAESAR as a function of specific gravity. e.g. "1 SG" will change the input to match water.

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#75081 - 10/16/20 03:35 PM Re: B31.4 Buried Pipeline - Huge Stresses and Displacements [Re: Michael_Fletcher]
maminu Offline
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Registered: 01/21/08
Posts: 29
Loc: Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Thank you. That was how I found out. The tool tip still shows the wrong unit though.

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#75088 - 10/19/20 10:05 AM Re: B31.4 Buried Pipeline - Huge Stresses and Displacements [Re: maminu]
Richard Ay Offline
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Registered: 12/13/99
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Loc: Houston, Texas, USA
The unit displayed in the tooltip is obtained from the active units file (set in the Configuration). Please verify that.
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