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Status Future consideration
Categories Analysis
Created by Sujaan Ahamed Fareed
Created on Oct 24, 2025

Expansion effects on structural members

Currently, when structural members/beams are connected to high temp piping, AutoPIPE does not consider the axial expansion effect of the structural members in its analysis.

Since AutoPIPE, is capable of evaluating temperature effect of piping, it would be an improvement to extend this functionality to apply the same temperature effects on structural members to correctly account for the displacement on the connecting header pipe.