Re: NASA Software Is Not Flexibility Piping Stress Analysis

The link referred to is "Piping Stress Analysis Software Technology Transfer"
from NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center ( featured at <a href="http://www.pipingdesign.com/software1.html">http://www.pipingdesign.com/software1.html</a> ).

<<The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) seeks to transfer the NASA-developed Piping Stress Analysis Software to companies needing a quick, easy-to-use, and efficient method of calculating pipe stress. Current methods used for piping stress analysis tend to rely on basic formulas and a hand calculator or on complex software packages that are often difficult to use for even simple cases. In view of this, the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) has developed a utility that calculates the stress, the working pressure, or the required pipe wall thickness in a simple, straightforward manner. The Piping Stress Analysis Software offers individuals and companies an opportunity to use a product that is more powerful and flexible than traditional paper and calculator techniques and easier to use than most of the currently available software packages.>>

NASA claims at their site, as a benefit, "Ease of use and flexibility: The program is smaller, easier to use, and more flexible than commercially available packages."

I know of at least one listmember who is looking into this technology transfer program; I think the idea is to take the basic software and build a commercial package around it. This seems to be an already competitive market.

Ben's software is at
<a href="http://www.pipingdesign.com/products/calculators1.html">http://www.pipingdesign.com/products/calculators1.html</a>

Paul

• Original Message ----- From: <bnottingham@chartertn.net> To: <PipingDesign@egroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 12:03 AM Subject: [PipingDesign] NASA Software Is Not "Flexibility" Piping Stress Analysis

| The free software from NASA, "Piping Stress Analysis Software,
KSC
| Case Number: KSC-11692", is not for "FLEXIBILITY" stress
analysis of
| piping. It can only calculate (1) the HOOP stress level in a
given
| pipe at a given pressure, (2) the minimum pipe-wall thickness ,
or
| (3) it can find the maximum working pressure allowed by the
selected
| code (ASME B31.1, ASME B31.3, or JIC). Temperature is ambient
only.
| It does not handle thermal effects in piping systems as was
implied
| by the title.
Received on Tue Jan 09 00:46:00 2001