Piping Flexibility

319.7 Means of Increasing Flexibility. of b31.3

The very first thing that a lot of piping designer do to increase pipe flexibility is to either add elbows or loops. However i have noticed that Very few understand that the objective of such excercise is to move the CG of the piping system away from the thrust lines. This concept is illustrated on Piping Engineering published by Tube Turns Inc. Received on Tue Jun 12 02:30:00 2001