Re: Pump Nozzle loads

I had to chuckle over your comment "Most if not all of the designers ive work with are competent and show good judgement. Im talking about the guys who operate the PDS." Glad you took it in the spirit it was intended.

Richard Beale
EnCana Oil and Gas Partnership
Calgary, Canada

• In PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com, "tomcruz55" <tomcruz55@...> wrote:
  >
  > forget about the sofyware, an incompetent designer probably do not
  > even realize what a computer looks like.
  >
  >
  >
  > --- In PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com, Richard Beale <r_beale@>
  > wrote:
  > >
  > > What piping software do the incompetent piping designers
  operate?
  > >
  > > Richard Beale
  > > EnCana Oil and Gas Partnership
  > > ----- Original Message -----
  > > From: tomcruz55
  > > To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
  > > Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 6:15 AM
  > > Subject: [PipingDesign] Re: Pump Nozzle loads
  > >
  > >
  > > --- In PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com, "Saha, Tanmoy" <TSaha@>
  > > wrote:
  > > >
  > > But sometimes or most of the times I found people deciding
  > > > supporting and stress analyzing are not sufficiently
  > experienced.
  > >
  > > My take. My experience show otherwise. Most if not all of the
  > > designers ive work with are competent and show good judgement.
  > Im
  > > talking about the guys who operate the PDS. The same goes to
  the
  > > engineers repsonsible for ensuring that affected process
  piping
  > are
  > > code compliant.
  > >
  > > _______________________________
  > >
  > > People
  > > > do not think that whenever some liquid flows through the
  pipe
  > it
  > > hits at
  > > > every change in direction creating some forces. To restrain
  > that
  > > proper
  > > > guides and line stops are to be provided otherwise as an
  > obvious
  > > case
  > > > vibration problem will come.
  > >
  > > My take. Well vibration do not necessarily pop out wnenever a
  > > support or line stops are provided or where changes in pipe
  > > direction exist. Perhaps other problem, but not vibration. And
  > when
  > > a process piping do encounter a severe vibration, the location
  > where
  > > its happening is not always obvious.
  > >
  > >
  > >
  > >
  > >
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  >