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    Pipe Support Span For Aboveground Piping

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    This document discusses factors that determine the optimal pipe support span between supports. The key factors are bending stress, deflection, indentation, and allowable load at supports. Bending stress depends on the pipe's own weight, insulation weight, fluid weight, and weight of inline items. Deflection is limited to 1 inch or half the pipe diameter to avoid excessive vibration. Indentation limits pressure the support can put on the pipe. Allowable load is calculated from the pipe's thickness, radius, and bearing length. Support span charts provide standard spans for different pipe sizes but must be reduced for elbows and turns. Properly determining support span based on these factors helps design effective piping support that avoids failure over time.

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    This document discusses factors that determine the optimal pipe support span between supports. The key factors are bending stress, deflection, indentation, and allowable load at supports. Bending stress depends on the pipe's own weight, insulation weight, fluid weight, and weight of inline items. Deflection is limited to 1 inch or half the pipe diameter to avoid excessive vibration. Indentation limits pressure the support can put on the pipe. Allowable load is calculated from the pipe's thickness, radius, and bearing length. Support span charts provide standard spans for different pipe sizes but must be reduced for elbows and turns. Properly determining support span based on these factors helps design effective piping support that avoids failure over time.

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    This document discusses factors that determine the optimal pipe support span between supports. The key factors are bending stress, deflection, indentation, and allowable load at supports. Bending stress depends on the pipe's own weight, insulation weight, fluid weight, and weight of inline items. Deflection is limited to 1 inch or half the pipe diameter to avoid excessive vibration. Indentation limits pressure the support can put on the pipe. Allowable load is calculated from the pipe's thickness, radius, and bearing length. Support span charts provide standard spans for different pipe sizes but must be reduced for elbows and turns. Properly determining support span based on these factors helps design effective piping support that avoids failure over time.

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    Pipe Support Span For Aboveground Piping

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    Handri Yanto
    This document discusses factors that determine the optimal pipe support span between supports. The key factors are bending stress, deflection, indentation, and allowable load at supports. Bending stress depends on the pipe's own weight, insulation weight, fluid weight, and weight of inline items. Deflection is limited to 1 inch or half the pipe diameter to avoid excessive vibration. Indentation limits pressure the support can put on the pipe. Allowable load is calculated from the pipe's thickness, radius, and bearing length. Support span charts provide standard spans for different pipe sizes but must be reduced for elbows and turns. Properly determining support span based on these factors helps design effective piping support that avoids failure over time.

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    Pipe Support Span for Aboveground Piping

    By Anup Dey

    Table of Contents

     Factors on Which Pipe Support Span Depends


     Deciding Pipe Support Span
     Bending Stress
     Deflection
     Indentation
     Allowable Load at Support
     Pipe Support Span Chart

    Pipe Support Span is defined as the optimum distance between two supports so as to
    avoid excessive stress, sagging or failure of the piping system in extreme cases. We all
    know that while routing aboveground piping or pipeline from one part or equipment to other
    we have to support the pipe at some places. Properly designed pipe support span helps the
    piping personnel to support pipes at regular intervals, thus reducing his work for unnecessary
    calculations. Refer to Fig. 1.

    Factors on Which Pipe Support Span Depends


    There are various factors which influences the pipe support span. Pipe support span varies
    with changes in

     Pipe Material
     Nominal Diameter Of Pipe & Schedule
     Type of service
     Type and Thickness of Insulation Material

    Fig. 1: Figure showing pipe support span

    Deciding Pipe Support Span


    Pipe Support Span Length Depends On-

     Bending Stress
     Deflection
     Indentation
     Allowable Loads

    Bending Stress
    Bending is caused mainly due to two reasons:

     Uniform Weight Load


     Concentrated Weight Load

    Uniform Weight Load

     Own Weight Of Pipe


     Insulation Weight
     Weight of Fluid During operation
     Weight of hydrostatic fluid During Hydro Test

    Concentrated Load

     Weight Of Valve, Flanges,


     Strainer, specialty items, inline items, etc.

    Deflection

    Deflection (Δ) is defined as a relative displacement of the point from its original position.

     The basic piping practice to limit pipe deflection between supports to 1” or 1/2 the
    nominal pipe diameter, whichever is the smaller.
     The most important reason for limiting deflection is to make the pipe stiff enough,
    that is , of high enough natural frequency, to avoid large amplitude response under
    any slight perturbing force. As a rough rule, for average piping, a natural frequency of
    4 cycles per second will be found satisfactory. The natural frequency can be
    calculated by

    Indentation
    Where,

     t=corroded Thickness of pipe Wall(mm)


     S=0.67Sh(N/mm^2)
     R=Radius of pipe (mm)
     d=Bearing Length(mm)
     b=Bearing width(mm)

    Allowable Load at Support

    Where,

     Pa=Allowable Load at the Support point


     t=effective local thickness (pipe wall +Reinforced Pad If Any)
     R=outer radius of Pipe
     b=Bearing length of pipe (along the axis) on the support structure

    IF ACTUAL LOAD AT SUPPORT IS GREATER THAN ALLOWABLE LOAD


    GIVEN BY ABOVE FORMULA, REINFORCEMENT PAD WILL BE REQUIRED.

    Normally project-specific Support Span is provided in tabular format for straight pipes that is
    known as “Pipe Support Span Chart”. But for elbows or turns the span to be reduced by a
    factor as shown in the below-attached figure (Fig. 2). Readymade support spans for specific
    pipe diameter and thickness are available in MSS code. For Shell group of companies’
    support span is provided in DEP in tabular format.
    Fig. 2: Factor to reduce support span depending on layout.

    Pipe Support Span Chart


    Pipe support span chart is a tabular chart giving a rough idea of supporting distance. These
    charts are normally mentioned in piping stress analysis project specifications. In the
    following image (Fig. 3) pipe support span chart from MSS SP-69 is reproduced as a sample.
    Fig. 3: Sample Piping Support Span Chart (Reference: MSS SP-69)

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