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CAESAR II Users Guide

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A piping element that is stiffer or heavier than pipe of the same size (for example, a flanged valve) can be modeled as a rigid element in CAESAR II. CAESAR II sets the stiffness of a rigid element based on the inside diameter defined for the pipe but with a wall thickness set to ten times the entered value. Note that long “rigid” elements may bend.

Rigid elements in CAESAR II are rigid relative to the pipe around it. For example, if a 6-inch line ties into a 72-inch heat exchanger and rigid elements are used to model the heat exchanger, those exchanger elements are better represented by 72-inch pipe rather than 6-inch pipe.