Hi all,

I am currently analysing a buried piping system whereby it comes up to a riser valve loop at every 10m or so interval.
My scope is only to analyse the underground component of the system. I would like to analyse the entire system as one CAESAR II model. Every time it goes up to a riser I have defined this as an anchor point then run a dummy piece of pipe to the next buried section.

The above ground section by the way is a different material to the underground component. Not that this matters as I am not analysing the above section.

My questions are:

1. Is this the correct way of modelling this in terms of creating a 'space' between two buried sections. Should I be employing some kind of a Cnode?

2. Is there a way to remove the 'dummy' above ground section when I run the analysis?

If this does not work then I will just run each buried sections between the risers which while acceptable will result in about 100 different files instead of just the one.

Any help is appreciated. thanking you in advance.