Sir Richard,

Thanks a lot for your reply,

Please check my statements, whether my understanding is correct or not from your reply.

1. So for Hoop stress calculations CAESAR-II used- “only user entered thickness ” not with the minimum wall thickness(t=PD/2(SEW+PY)

2. Where I have to interpolate this temperature & material- you mean from “from the Table 302.3.5 WELD JOINT STRENGTH REDUCTION FACTOR”?

3. CAESAR-II is taking the value of WC automatically from the Table 302.3.5. Then why not WL. What is the problem for taking WL also automatically?

Sorry Richard, I am unable to understand the answer for my 3rd question. “This is an element property and will be duplicated forward by the software”. Can you please elaborate shortly.

Please correct me if I am wrong.