Hi I am a long time user of Caesar pipe stress software and a new joiner in Coade discussion forum. Have a simple question as follows:-

Caesar, like other pipe stress analysis software, uses the centerline of the piping system to model the geometry and as such reports the stresses at nodes located on the imaginary line. However, tre stresses will be located on the pipe wall which may not be a constant across a given pipe section.

So how to know the stress pattern across a pipe section, apart from the stress at the node point? Is FEA the only option >>