Re: Mitre bend Calcultion

From: <Christopher>
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 11:21:00 EDT

>Can anyone guide me how to calculate teh mitre joint calcultions for large
>diameter pipe.

There is no closed form calculation.I've seen some numerical methods for doing this calculation (Do a search at <http://www.scirus.com> or <http://www.google.com> FEA is quicker, but it's not a trivial problem. The stresses are non-uniform around the miter and comprise both primary and peak stresses which have to be sorted out because different allowable stresses apply.

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