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Stress Analysis
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Why is necessary to eliminate excessive flexibility?
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How are failures due to inadequate flexibility now almost nonexistent?
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What are individual Stress-Intensification Factors (SIF) applied for?
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What is the Stress-Intensification Factor?
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What does the Maximum Shear Stress Theory state?
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Out of the Six Theories of Failure, which are the 2 that are the most widely used?
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What does the Maximum Principle Stress Theory state?
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What are the 5 modes of failure of piping design?
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What is the purpose of Stress Analysis?
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What is Stress Analysis?
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What is the Stress-Strain curve?
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What are the 5 majority causes of failures (after flexibility analysis) of a system?
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What are the effects of excessive flexibility?
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What are the methods of incorporating flexibility in a piping arrangement?
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What is the purpose of flexibility analysis?
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What is the objective of having flexibility within a piping system?
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How do you define a hydro-test pressure based on design pressure?
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Does materials incompatibility play a role on stress analysis?
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Does an anchor restrict motion in all direction that is X-Y-Z directions?
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What is thermal bowing?
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What is creep?
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How do you know when you are above the maximum force that the system can take?
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Why is the thermal analysis done at the design temperature?
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What is the importance of flexibility in a piping system?
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