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PLANT 4D Stress analysis

PLANT 4D Stress analysis

PLANT 4D Stress analysis

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Dear All,

Has anyone had any experience with the Plant 4D stress package?  How does it fair against Caesar II?   would imagine that if the whole 4D suite is used, time saving is huge since modelling is a thing of the past!

Regards

m

RE: PLANT 4D Stress analysis

Companies have been promising massive savings in pipe stress analysis and piping design hours for as long as they've been offering CAD with all these programs from a single vendor playing nice with each other.

I haven't seen it happen yet.  Now, I'm only 31 and have eight years doing stress, so my perspective is naturally limited historically.  I wouldn't be surprised if the computing power gets us a lot closer to this accountant's dream of eliminating the engineers by the time I retire, but I'm not yet ready to shake in fear of being replaced by a computer.

Edward L. Klein
Pipe Stress Engineer
Houston, Texas

"All the world is a Spring"

All opinions expressed here are my own and not my company's.

RE: PLANT 4D Stress analysis

I'll put my 2 cents in here, but my opinion is obviously biased ... but here it is anyway.

Plant 4D Stress is, I believe, Triflex.  Check out the CEA website to see this.

As Ed says, vendors have been promising transparent CAD-Stress interfaces for years.  The only one, to date, that really works is the CADWorx-CAESAR II pair.  This is a bi-directional interface, so changes on either side of the fence can be made, retained, and shared.  If you don't believe me, download the demo, or contact jbrinlee@coade.com.

Even with these packages, you will never remove the engineer from the process, or eliminate "modeling" completely.  The stress analyst still has to define "code specific" details as well as restraint details.  This is information that is typically not known when the system is first drawn in the CAD package.

(Now the really cool thing about the CADWorx-CAESAR II pair is that once this "code/restraint specific" data is entered in CAESAR II, it can be passed back and forth.  It won't be lost, and the stress analyst only has to define it once.)

Richard Ay
COADE, Inc.

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