This may be a little hard to explain, but I will give it a try. In the 'GLOBAL FORCE AND MOMENT' output section, loads are printed for each node twice. These loads, unless they are a tee, are identical or nearly identical in both load sets (including having the same sign) for static load cases. One should be positive and one should be negative (one is the applied force, one is the reaction). Is there guidance anywhere on which should be positive or negative (probably related to the order in the deck).
Greetings,
Are you using AutoPIPE or AutoPIPE Vessel? these are very different applications.
Regards, Mike Dattilio Design Analysis Engineering Group Senior Analyst Bentley Systems Inc=============================================================================
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First see AutoPIPE's program help:
Help > Contents> Contents Tab> Reference Information> Results Interpretation> review each document here. However in reference to this posting, see the "Pipe Forces and Moments: Global Option". This will help you understand this sub report.
If you still have questions, generate a new sub-report with Sorted Stress are disabled. After generating the report, past a section to give a clear example of this issue.
thanks, that section of the help menu described what we were dealing with. We're getting to identical sets of loads at some nodes, I believe, because those nodes are modeled as an immediate 90 degree change in direction.