Your Model_1 includes the height of the spring can while Model_2 does not.

These systems respond in a similar fashion as expected (and as suggested by the note in the Application Guide).

It looks to me that the loads transferred to the pipe at Node 430 are identical between the two models. See below. (I am not using the same version of CAESAR II as you.)


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Dave Diehl