G'day fellow stress folks,

Can anyone please verify which approach is correct when entering a known value of a constant support hanger in your modelling. I have a node that is supported by two Constant support hanger with a support load (each) of 10484#. Looking at the Application Guide page 4-6 it says to enter the number of constant support hanger at the location. The diagram however does not show a quantity of "2" in this field for the given example. Is the correct approach to specify "2" at the "No. Hangers at location" field and leave constant effort support load as 10484 or leave the hanger as 1 and double the load of the hanger to 20968#? Your feedback and assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Hello Pickles


The only thing you have to provide at the node is the total supporting force. It would be useful if you would describe how two Constants are supporting the pipe at that node. Is the pipe horizontal or vertical (riser). Is it a riser clamp or is it a trapeze type or what?

Regards, John

Oh thanks John... It's Saturday midnight here in Oz and I'm stuck with this deadline... Hence your help is much appreciated (More than normal). It's a horizontal pipe I am looking at and a trapeze type. One of the name plate would have the 10484" load scribed on it hence my assumption is that if it is the total load then I'll multiply this by two and get 20968#. But really would like to verify that in Caesar, this is equivalent to specifying the load of each spring and the number of springs. The application guide just seems to be misleading and I just wanted a 2nd opinion. What do you reckon?

Yes, either one spring at 20968, or two springs at 10484.

Sounds good to me.......funny how we are all working today

Thanks guys!