Pipe shoe / anchor / guide detail allowable forces and moments
Pipe shoe / anchor / guide detail allowable forces and moments
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Hi folks, just a quick one here.
I am tasked with (actually tasking myself with) writing an in-house set of standards for shoes, anchors and guides for both welded and non-welded (clamped-onto-pipe) pipe supports. What I want to develop is a table that lists the detail number and pipe size on the left and the allowable loads on the right. In other words, something really simple that a stress analyst can hand the piping designer with an output report so when the stress analysis loads / restraint reports are generated, the detail can be selected (either by the engineer or the designer). Does such a thing already exist in some form or should I engineer it from scratch?
I am tasked with (actually tasking myself with) writing an in-house set of standards for shoes, anchors and guides for both welded and non-welded (clamped-onto-pipe) pipe supports. What I want to develop is a table that lists the detail number and pipe size on the left and the allowable loads on the right. In other words, something really simple that a stress analyst can hand the piping designer with an output report so when the stress analysis loads / restraint reports are generated, the detail can be selected (either by the engineer or the designer). Does such a thing already exist in some form or should I engineer it from scratch?





RE: Pipe shoe / anchor / guide detail allowable forces and moments
If the piping routing is being done with a 3D CAD piping program, the available support points (for example rack steel) should be noted by the designer so that these locations appear in the iso sent to the stress analysis software. Then the stress engineer will select the guide/anchor/hold down and communicate it to the designer.
Different places do things slightly differently of course.
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RE: Pipe shoe / anchor / guide detail allowable forces and moments
That's exactly what I am doing...sort of. We were in a rush and had to issue a bunch of typical support details, but there were no allowable loads associated with them. Had there been, I would have put the loads on the individual detail sheets. So, instead of delay the issuing of the fabrication details, I elected to prepare a table that is to be used in conjunction with them. The plan is, some time in future, to then re-issue the details with the loads on each sheet and discard the table.
Sometimes you're a project guy, sometimes you're a mechanical guy, sometimes you're somewhere in between - all in the name of schedule. It's a never-ending dance of compromise.
RE: Pipe shoe / anchor / guide detail allowable forces and moments
You might try here:
http://www.pipesupports.com/products/catalogues/le...
Bergen-Paterson has tables for all kinds of pipe supports and pipe support hardware which include the "Allowable Loads".
Sometimes its possible to do all the right things and still get bad results
RE: Pipe shoe / anchor / guide detail allowable forces and moments
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