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Muhammad Usman

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Muhammad Usman

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Title: STATIC STRESS ANALYSIS

NED UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

A team of students performed the static stress analysis of process plant piping system

in accordance with code ASME B31.3 using Caesar-II software and sharing the details:

A detailed stress analysis of two piping systems was performed. The first system was

already known safe system which included the types and locations of supports. The

second system was without supports and the objective was to assign the types and

location of the supports on the basis of stress analysis. And after assigning the

supports, the system must be safe according to the ASME Code B31.3. The stress

analysis was to be performed using the software CAESAR II and in accordance with the

piping code ASME B31.3.

In the first system the stress analysis was performed once and it was found to be safe.

In the second system, the stress analysis was performed several times with changing

support locations to reduce the stresses to the minimum and make the system safe to

operate. The location of the stresses was determined by the nodes where the stresses

exceeded the allowable limits. Each failing section was assigned with a single support

at appropriate section to curtail the stresses induced. The results were graphically

analyzed by plotting between Stress and Nodes of the system and comparing them with
the Allowable Stress according to the code for each load case, and the system was

found to be within the allowable limits i.e. the system was safe.

The formulae present in the code and the formulae used to manually calculate the

stress in the piping systems without the aid of software were derived using the basic

equations of stress. The derived formulae were used to calculate the stress

induced in a sample basic system of pipe and the results of these formulae were

compared with the results of stress analysis of the same system using the software

CAESAR II. Both the results were observed to be very close and hence it was

concluded that the stress analysis results using Finite Element Analysis i.e. a software,

are very close to the results using stress analysis knowledge. Therefore, the results of

Finite Element Analysis can be approximated with the ones obtained by stress analysis

knowledge.

The significance of the results is acquiring intensive knowledge of the foundation of

stress analysis which must essentially be used in analyzing practical piping systems

and determining the solutions of complex problems confronted. These formulas are

continually evolved as per the practical situations face by professionals, hence these

derivations can be used for further research.


This project was performed by following group members, and can be approach on

requirements.

1. Ammar Naeem [email protected]


2. Fasih Ur Rasheed [email protected]
3. Saad Kamran [email protected]
4. Shayan Hasan Khan [email protected]

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