I designed my piping system in Bentley AutoPIPE Nuclear, and i have to do my analysis using the ASME NC Nuclear code.
I am interested in forces/moments and mainly in stress, for sustain and expansion (gravity and thermal analysis)
The stress values in the sustain analysis are very accurate, about 30 MPa and the allowable is 121MPa as i expected.
The problem is that for thermal analysis, i get no values. The force/moment/stress in every node is 0 for thermal Analysis with ASME NC. What should i do to fix that?
To check if i made a mistake, i changed the code to ASME NB and there i get values also for Thermal/Expansion, so i assume the problem is in the ASME NC equations in AutoPIPE.
Any advice for how to fix it?
Good day to you Andreal,
What year of ASME NC are you analyzing too?
What version of AutoPIPE are you using? (8 digit number)
Are you talking about the Stress Summary or the Preverification report?
Can you please paste images clearly describing your issue?
Regards,Mike DattilioBentley Product Advantage Group Senior AnalystBentley Systems Inc=============================================================================
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Hello Andrei
I think you have a simple mistake probably in the stress summary, but we need a model to check this. The Be Community is meant for discussion threads, if you have a specific technical support request we will need screenshots, model etc to help us diagnose the problem, so you would be better creating a Service Request and sending all the supporting material.
Phil Senior
Director or Product Management - Piping
Bentley Systems
Answer Verified By: Mike Dattilio