Meena Rezkallah, P.Eng.Nov 19, 20201 min readAPEGA Practice Standards & GuidelinesAPEGA's professional practice standards and guidelines explain in detail the roles and responsibilities of professional members. They...
Meena Rezkallah, P.Eng.Sep 20, 20206 min readPiping Stress Analysis3.6.1 Consideration of Cold SpringCold spring is the process of offsetting (or pre-loading) the piping system with displacement loads (usually accomplished by cutting...
Meena Rezkallah, P.Eng.Sep 18, 20203 min readPiping Stress Analysis3.5.4 Use of CNODES When Modeling RestraintsAs discussed elsewhere in these seminar notes, CNODES (short for connecting nodes) are used with a restraint whenever a point in the...
Meena Rezkallah, P.Eng.Sep 17, 20204 min readPiping Stress Analysis3.5.3.1 Use of the Structural Steel ModelerElements of structural steel members may be incorporated into the model of the piping system through the use of the structural steel...
Meena Rezkallah, P.Eng.Sep 15, 20204 min readPiping Stress Analysis3.5.3 Evaluation of Restraint StiffnessIn Section 2.3.3 of these seminar notes the significant effect that restraint stiffnesses may have on the piping system was described....