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How Do You Know If a Pipe Failed Due to Excess Pressure?
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What is the relationship between hoop and axial
stresses in a pressurized pipe?
Active and Passive Soil Resistance on Buried Pipe
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What is the difference between the two types of soil resistance which act on a buried pipe?
FRP Piping: Actual versus Idealized Envelope
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Learn which two test points are used to define the envelope.
Flange Loading Assessment conform EN 13445
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What are the load cases in a Taylor Force flange
assessment in EN 13445?
Using the Low Cycle Fatigue Approach
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Exceeding the yield stress, is it LCF or HCF?
EN 13480 Minimum Wall Thickness
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What factors determine the minimum
wall thickness for a pipe conform EN 13480?
How is a Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic (FRP) Pipe Manufactured?
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What are the steps in the Filament Winding method to produce Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic (FRP) pipes?
Piping Vibrations: Likelihood of Failure (LoF)
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What is the difference between the quantitative and the qualitative approaches to determine the LoF?
Principal Stresses vs. Equivalent Stresses in Fatigue
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Which type of stress should you use in a fatigue assessment? See the reasoning why.
The Difference between LCF and HCF
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Understand the difference between Low Cycle Fatigue (LCF) and High Cycle Fatigue (HCF)
Why is Radial Stress Neglected in a Piping Stress Analysis?
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Learn why design codes such as the EN 13480 and ASME B31.3 ignore radial stresses in calculations for thin-walled piping.
Bi-linear Soil Stiffness Model for Piping Analysis
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Soil mechanics are simplified for a piping stress analysis conform EN 13480 using a bi-linear spring model.
Fatigue Assessment: Analytical vs. FEA
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Points to be aware of when using calculated stresses from FEA with an S-N curve.