I have noticed this before - results for FAC=0.001 do not correspond to FAC=1 for fully restrained pipe with bourdon effect. This could be considered as conservatism in the code stress implementation. CII overestimates fully restrained stress by about 0.2SHOOP due to its implementation of bourdon effect. Perhaps CII could adjust Fac in its calculation based on the degree of compression, just a thought...


Edited by MPB (12/17/10 01:02 AM)