VIBRATIONS OF PIPING NETWORKS

Abstract

A piping system provides flow path for liquids end gases and is essentially an irregular space Shame. The iwor tenon of piping system and hence its edecuats design is obvious from the feet that the failure of piping system Can use health hazards and that the reliability of a plant is to o large extent dependent on the reliability of the piping system; and hence the irportanco of dynade studies. For the determination of mode shape and frequency Of free vibrations the piping system have been discretised by lu~1rg the ens at nodal points; and the Conventional Stiffness matrix approach have been a loyed, A colsputer Frogwaa for generating stiffness matrix, and to determine code shape and frequency has been Written and rye use of for solving fete model configurations; and it has been found that, to ensure safety„ the horizontal an Wall as Vertical pound nation soot be Considered since the noroeaeat in one dir action cantos dioplecesaent in all the three sutual.ly perpendicular di `ections,