I can add that...If any project goes off well without any incident, nobody bothers to give any credit to the stress engineer, but if anything goes wrong,( be it a critical or non-critical line) like a line vibrating or support lifting off, the first person to be caught is the stress engineer.
Today's project managers feel that pipe stressing is like photocopying, just put the iso in the machine and results are out in a jiffy !!
I remember in one of my earlier projects, the project manager asked me if we can buy the spring supports in advance ! I was shocked at his statement. He might be thinking that Piping spring supports are like ball-point pen springs, just buy it in wholesale and use it whenever you want.
It is high time that project managers and engineers and lead engineers are educated on the cycle of stress analysis and importance of all activities in pipe-stressing.
Regards,
John Wright