Originally Posted By: zall
Hello dear experienced people.
I have a question about a pig launcher station. Firstly pipeline comes to launcher from underground and connecting to launcher. After again it goes into the soil. In such a stiuation how do i seismic analysis? Because i have read in other topics that seismic analyse for underground pipes does not true. And also there are different max and min temperatures for aboveground and underground. How do i perfom analysis for difference max and min temperatures.
I think just modelling of above ground part is not sense. But when i define the uniform seismic force the force was defined whole pipeline.