| Product(s): | SACS |
| Version(s): | ALL |
| Area: | PSI |
Community Question:
Hello Bentley, could you help me to clarify the next queries?
- In the PIF file (Pile Input File), in the PLOPT card and columns 59-60, we have available code check options that are mainly based on API. Would you please clarify if there is a way to implement Norsok to pile code checks below the mud line?
- Even if a different code to API is chosen in columns 9-10 on the PLOPT command, still API-RP2A WSD Edition option be asked by API in columns 59-60. Can you clarify why is that?
- Has there been any PSI version update? I have two PSI files in which in one of them the option PLOPT is available the option while the option PSIOPT is not supported and in the other one quite the opposite.
Answer:
- A difference of modeled members, for pile only the API review is supported, unfortunately, this option is only available using a Pile input file during a monopile design,
- The "stress and unity check options" in columns 9-10 from the PLOPT card allow us to perform a code check of piles using Norsok, API, DANISH, and ISO code, until now 1984 NPD code Norwegian Petroleum Directorate is supported by SACS. Unfortunately, the latest Norsok code is not supported, on the other hand, the option in columns 59-60 is meant for generating soil resistance curves as per API recommendations, until now, there isn't a recommendation in Norsok to build soil resistance curves, but if the user specifies his owns soil resistance curves, the option for automatically generated API-based curves will be ignored.
- The reason for this difference is due to these are two different files, one of them is a "Pile soil interaction" and the other is for "Pile input File", the first is used for pile-soil interaction in a global structural analysis for a platform marine, and the other file is used for wind turbine foundations (monopile) : the card PSIOPT was thought to work only in pile solid interaction files in this you can't have possibility to change the code check for the sections piles, and PLOPT to work with pile input files,