Thanks for your input folks. After further investigation and calculations by a number of different methods, here are my conclusions:
1. Generally, calculated acceptable span lengths using beam equations decrease as tension due to temperature difference increases. In other words, the summer...
Yes, I mean for the operating temperature to be ambient or actual pipe temperature at the span. Let me ask this a different way. I am trying to establish a standardized conservative method to evaluate pipe spans found on cross country pipelines. I have been told that it is conservative to...
In determining the maximum acceptable length of existing pipeline spans found on operating pipelines, what is typically assumed for installation temperature and operating temperature when both are unknown? Is it more conservative to assume the pipe is in compression or tension for doing the...
