Re: Liberal Allowable Stress

From: <aluser2>
Date: Tue Aug 23 2005 - 13:02:00 EDT


i really enjoy chris's drole and witty sense of humor. Especially an american deprecating
his ilk. I agree with steve and sometimes the humor lightens the topic and the day as long as it
isnt offensive or personal or too far offbeat.

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> Liberal Allowable Stress: (Reference: Caesar II Tech. material)
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> A conservative formulation of the allowable expansion stress range for
> many codes in CAESAR II is calculated from:
> f ( 1.25 Sc + .25 Sh )
> When the user requests that the "Liberal Allowable" be used, the
> difference between Sh and Sl, provided Sh > Sl, will be added to the term
> inside the parenthesis, i.e.
> SA(Liberal) = f[ 1.25 Sc + .25 Sh + ( Sh - Sl) ]
> The liberal expression will only be employed when there is at least one
> sustained stress case in the load set. If there is more than one sustained
> stress case in a single problem, then the largest of Sl, considering all
> of the sustained cases, for any single element end will be chosen to
> subtract from Sh. Because the sustained stress varies from one pipe to
> another, the allowable expansion stress will also vary.
>
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> With best regards.
>
> Tushar Zope
> Linde, India
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