The importance of Stress Analysis of Steam Piping System

Piping System design and analysis is a very important field in any process and power industry. Piping system is analogous to blood circulating system in human body and is necessary for the life of the plant.

This piping system is one of the major requirements of the plant to be installed. The goal of quantification and analysis of pipe stresses is to provide safe design. There could be several designs that could be safe. A piping engineer would have a lot of scope to choose from such alternatives, the one which is most economical, or most suitable etc. Good piping system design is always a mixture of sound knowledge base in the basics and a lot of ingenuity. The aim of the project is to design and analyze piping system according to standard piping Codes. The design should prevent failure of piping system against over stresses due to: Sustained loadings which act on the piping system during its operating time.

While piping stress analysis is used to ensure:

1) Safety of piping and piping components

2) Safety of the supporting structures