Stress Analysi on Design temp or Operating temperature

Dear Friends,

Please advice me for doing stress analysis we should use design temperature or Maximum operating Temperature?

If we refer CAESER II, Then the help says that among the 9 Temperature fields the maximum operating temperature to be used.( Maximum operating temp appears to be the maximum)

Please advice.

Regards,

Tebodin & Partner LLC

Md Danish

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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Mon May 29 04:44:00 2006