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This help has been provided in order to give users ideas for modeling typical piping arrangements. The steps shown in each example should not be taken as the only method available to create models. In addition, the intent of the examples is to present ways to create adequate models of specific piping components for analytical purposes.

Anchor	Bends
Cuts: Cold Spring	Flexible Joints            a. Single Bellows Expansion Joint           b. Tied Bellows Expansion Joint           c. Tied Universal Expansion Joint           d. Hinged Expansion Joint           e. Gimbal Expansion Joint           f. Slip Joint           g. Ball and Socket Joint           h. Pressure Balanced Expansion Joints
Frames	Hangers
Nozzles	Pipes
Reducers	Rotating Equipment
Supports	Tees
Valves	Vessels

Comments, Questions, and Answers:

1. Flexible Joint Dialog Explained
2. Flexible joints, apply define coefficient of thermal expansion
3. Flexible joint material
4. Tied-bellows example using Tie/Link supports
5. Request for additional flexible joint example model
6. Flex / Braided hose
7. Most realistic way to model the curved flex hose
8. Perform a "rigorous pressure extension analysis"
9. Penetration Seal Bellows Joint
10. Hyspan Barco Ball Joint?
11. Bending stiffness and torsional stiffness of ball joints
12. Ball joint
13. An in-line Pressure Balance Expansion Joint
14. Appears that the Flexible joint are not relieving pipe stresses, why?
15. Flexible joint single line graphics
16. Metraloop expansion loops made by Metraflex
17. Flexible hose floating on surface
18. Meeting deign requirements
19. Axial Covered Type Double Expansion joint
20. Hyspan Externally Pressurized Expansion Joints

See Also

Model Different Types of PIPING Components

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