On Feb 27, 2008, at 2:19 PM, M. Engineer wrote:
> will the tensile loading imposed on pipe
> wall will not be an issue here specially if you have
> 20 inch and larger sizes overhead line from top of
> distillation colum tavelling all the way down (say 20
> meter lenght? What about the loads imposed on the
> column top nozzle from the vertical pipe distance
> travel? will near top support alone enough in this
> case?
Determining the loads and their effects is the reason you do stress
analysis.
Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.
.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania1864)
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