Not sure if this is the right forum but I will try.
We have a steam pipe crossing a seismic expansion joint between two building with differential building movements but the Mechanical EOR doens not want to provide flexibility into his/her system and obviously, the owner takes their advise...
We have designed some supplementary steel members, suporting equipment and piping, to be welded on the web of existing steel beams, this way we avoid cross flange welding and residual stresses. The EOR does not like the idea and insists on welding the members to the bottom (tension) flange of...
We have a 92" water filled pipe supported at approximately 12 ft OC. However, at every other support there is a Sleeve (Depend-O-Lock) coupling at approximatelly 10 ft away from one support and 2 ft away from the other. Personnally, I don't feel comfortable having a 92" pipe overhaning over the...
I have a model with about 65000 ellements and I am having dificulty assigning the plate thicknesses for all of them.
Does anybody know what is the maximun number of elements or joints the program can handle?
BENTLEY is out for lunch.
Thanks