Hot Spring (and pipe stress analysis)
Hot Spring (and pipe stress analysis)
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I am currently doing a pipe stress analysis on some steam piping. The as built drawings show cold spring and it amount, but also shows hot spring in some areas.
Now I am well aware of cold spring and how to analyse it, but I have never come across hot spring. I had a quick glance through my copy of Pipe Stress Engineering by Peng and Peng and there doesn't seem to be a reference to it there.
Could someone please explain, or point me to a reference of what hot spring actually is? Is it simply the opposite of cold spring and the pipe is slightly longer as opposed to being cut shorter?
Now I am well aware of cold spring and how to analyse it, but I have never come across hot spring. I had a quick glance through my copy of Pipe Stress Engineering by Peng and Peng and there doesn't seem to be a reference to it there.
Could someone please explain, or point me to a reference of what hot spring actually is? Is it simply the opposite of cold spring and the pipe is slightly longer as opposed to being cut shorter?





RE: Hot Spring (and pipe stress analysis)
I have found a reference to 'cut long' being the opposite of cut short. I am assuming this is therefore hot spring?
RE: Hot Spring (and pipe stress analysis)