Re: Mitre bend Calcultion

From: <Christopher>
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 12:21:00 EDT

> You must plan on spending at least a few days scratching your head
>wondering how to take the pretty plots and relate them to practical piping
>designs. (My opinion only.)

Well put. FEA can calculate stresses. It's the engineer's job to decide if the calculations match the job requirements and what interpretation is to be placed on the results.

Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=HhPKxQla_Wz0MFKik8dYq9sMhlKoqQLCAjbvFwGcz3bJ4mspg7vWmUGxxI-8SuLfT0Kkw72EEM5-edo">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.

___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)

<a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw</a> Received on Mon Jul 28 12:21:00 2003