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    1 a).We have modeled using nozzle flexibility option with the "user" input in the flexibility method @ Nozzle/ vessel interface using the stiffness values from the Equipment Vendor. Equipment direction is “Z”. Nozzle direction is “Z”. Vendor has provided…
  • Anchor flexibility

    Hello, Can you please advise the formula to result anchor flexibilities from local coordinate to global coordinate? Several AutoPIPE users in my office but no of us has the animation runs properly after the computer system upgraded to Windows Vista…
  • Extracting (or separating) steel model out of AutoPIPE V8i Select back to STAAD

    Hello all, I have a unique situation and wonder if the software has a solution. We have a linked AutoPIPE V8i Select / STAAD PRO file. Sometime after the STAAD steel model was integrated in to the AutoPIPE model, the original STAAD model was lost. Is…
  • Nozzle modeling: W41-27 error

    I am trying to model a 20" STD connection to a tank of 40 m diameter at 1 m above ground level, filled to 13 m high. Naturally I use the API 650 flexibility method (I assume it's using the Appendix P calculations, meant for tanks above 36 m in diameter…