RE: Modeling Hygienic Unions

From: <Christopher>
Date: Sun May 23 2004 - 16:42:00 EDT

>I understood Caesar defaults to 7x the pipe stiffness for the local fitting
>stiffness. this may or may not be the "magic" number for such widely varying
>kinds of fittings.

An artifice like this probably makes some sense to in clude the weight of the fitting, but there's no way to verify Code compliance that way. Rules for those fittings are a lot more like rules for assessing flanges--not the same of course but about as much different from stresses in an ordinary pipe wall as you can get.

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<a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw</a> Received on Sun May 23 16:42:00 2004