Snubber purchase

[parijat10]

Sir,

During snubber purchase what are the parameters to be provided to a vendor?

Say the snubber linear direction is in x direction. X is the stroke direction.

Then a purchaser should provide the occasional load in x direction for which the snubber has to be designed and the thermal displacement in x direction.

Or should he also provide displacements in y and z direction also i.e. for stroke calculation only x displacement is needed or y and z are also needed?

The displacements mentioned above are displacements of the point where the snubber get connected to piping.

One more thing : The stroke is considered from the middle of the snubber or from end to end of the snubber?


Thanks and Regards
Parijat Bandyopadhyay


Thanks and Regards
Parijat Bandyopadhyay

 

[StevenHPerry]

These questions would be best answered by a manufacturer.

Otherwise, I've noticed a tendency of engineers to just dump mountains of data on the support vendor and rely on their engineering staff to pick out the few bits they actually need.

- Steve Perry

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[DSB123]

Well Parijat,
What you must ask yourself is whether the y and z displacements have any influence on the functional requirements of the snubber - to which the answer is yes. Both y and z displacements of the pipe will increase the stroke from just the x displacements. Also if significant then the snubber design has to accommodate lateral displacements of one end to the other. Does this give you a clue??