Victaulic pipe system stress analysis 1

[koneill44]

My company is potentially installing victaulic piping for a building glycol/water heating system operating up to 220F. The piping would be designed according to ASME B31.3 or B31.9 which I believe requires a stress analysis. We have a program called Bentley autopipe to do stress analysis but I don't have any idea how to model a victaulic joint. We checked with Bentley and they gave us a complicated model of one joint. It would take a huge amount of time to model with that complexity.

Is there an easier way to do this?

 

[EddyC]

I found this on the web:

http://www.coade.com/newsletters/jun98.pdf

It talks about Victaulic piping. Maybe it can help you?

 

[MJCronin]

koneill...

I disagree...

I do not believe that any ASME B31 code mandates a stress anaysis for any pipng system. It is up to the piping designer/engineer to ensure that flexibility is considered in a system and to determine if a "simplified" or detailed (computer based) analysis is necessary.

See section 5.2 of this document:

http://www.standard.no/pronorm-3/data/f/0/01/35/6_10704_0/L-002.pdf

-MJC