Pipe support Design Premise - Design Criteria

10.1 Support Location and Selection

The supports for piping shall be positioned and selected to prevent the following.
• • Pipe stresses in excess of the allowable stresses.
• • Liquid pockets in the piping systems.
• • Deflections in pipe supports beyond stated requirements.
• • Leakage at joints.
• • Loads and moments on connected equipment’s nozzle in excess of allowable loads.
• • Resonance with imposed wind force or contained fluid vibrations.
• • Resonance with imposed mechanical or acoustically induced vibrations from reciprocating
machines.
• • Interference with free thermal expansion or contractions as required by the pipe stress
analysis report.
• • Unintentional disengagement of piping from its support.
• • Deflections of piping greater than those which the span selection tables are based on.
• • Piping required drainage slope shall be given special consideration.
• • Piping vibrations due to Flow induced pulsation shall be minimised

10.2 Layout Considerations

• • The pipe supports shall be considered and integral part of the pipe work and structural
design and shall be considered from piping layout studies through to final support selection. Common
supports for other services such as Electrical/Instrument cables and HVAC ducting should be utilized
whenever practical.
• • Expansion calculations for piping shall be based on temperatures stated in the project line
list.
• • The effects of deck deflections and platform sway shall be considered in selection of
supports. Magnitude of deflections and sway shall be obtained from the structural department.
• • The design of pipe supports shall consider the effects of explosion drag/blast loads etc.

10.3 Temporary Supports

Temporary supports should be kept to a minimum.
When modules are built, the need for temporary supports may appear. The fabrication contractor shall
design and supply all temporary support needed, not limited to the following cases:
• • Lines at module interfaces where the free ends of pipes are insufficient supported.
• • On piping system to be hydro tested where and optimized pipe and support system would
be overstressed.
• • Valves and other inline equipment heavier than 2500kg shall be provided with additional
fasteners prior to tow out.

All temporary supports shall be removed before commissioning. The instruction for removal shall also be
noted on the support drawings. Where possible, bolted connections shall be used for easy removal.

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