Can you please advice on how I can go about performing stress analysis on a flexsteel water pipe in AutoPIPE. The material properties are orthotropic in nature.
Thanks
Greetings,
See information here about Flexsteel piping. This pipe is mostly no-metallic with steel reinforcements as shown below:
AutoPIPE does not have a default material library for this type of piping. Therefore, suggest to follow typical method of modeling non-metallic piping but using the properties of Flexsteel where needed.
Regards, Mike Dattilio Design Analysis Engineering Group Senior Analyst Bentley Systems Inc=============================================================================
Answer Verified By: Mike Dattilio