Dear SACS user,I want to design bends of pipeline in SACS this design will be used for lifting analysis. How can I design it smoothly? Can I extract from Autopipe model? How?Regards
We don't natively support pipe bends (or curved elements of any sort for that matter) but there are a few options available to you for modeling these types of elements.
We don't provide any post processing code check capabilities for curved elements in SACS so you would need to use another program or hand check the curved pipe based upon the member end forces.
What are you attempting to model? If you are using a the pipe bend as a lifting point, you may want to consider using a plate mesh anyways to model the local behavior of the element.
Regards,
Geoff