This forum used to be really busy. Ask a question and one of the senior forum members answered all reasonable questions within minutes. Now this is close to a dead forum. There is a reason. Making the forum closed will not help.

I do not know where people move. One thing is for sure. I will not be able to answer on my specialty field = expansion joints.

As part of this last post a warning. Expansion joints are poorly understood. Very many pipe designs that contain them are wrongly designed. Equipment fail and people get injured and unfortunately also die.

If you do not understand 100% what the pressure thrust is then do not include expansion joints into your pipe design.

All the best to everybody.