Chapter VIII Hangers

BAB VIII
HANGERS

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8.1 General Information

Input  Piping  Model 

Hanger Design Control Data

“Zero load constant effort

suppor”

Stiff (Default) : 1.0E12

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8.2 Simple Hanger Design

No additional input

Globally (in hanger

control)
locally (on each
hanger auxiliary data
area)
Note that a number of the parameters
from the hanger control sheet also show
up on the individual hanger auxiliary
data fields.
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8.3 Single Can Design

Indicate that the pipe is supported from

below by entering a negative number in the
Hanger/Can Available Space field on the
hanger spreadsheet.

distance between
the pipe support and the
concrete foundation, or
baseplate.

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8.4 Constant Effort Support Design

Constant effort support

Very small allowable travel

0.01 in

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8.5 Inputting Constant Effort Supports (No Design)

Step :

1. Enter the constant effort

support load (per hanger)
in the Predefined Hanger
Data field.
2. Enter the number of
constant support hangers at
the location.

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8.6 Entering Existing Springs (No Design)

Step :
1. Enter the Spring Rate and
the Theoretical Cold Load
(installation load, on a per
hanger basis) in the
Predefined Hanger Data
fields.
2. Enter the number of
Variable Support Hangers
at the location.

Theoretical Cold Load = Hot Load +

Travel * Spring Rate
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8.7 Multiple Can Design

Positive number
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8.8 Old Spring Redesign

• the hanger table

• the number of springs
at the location
• the old spring rate

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8.9 Pipe and Hanger Supported From Vessel

Connecting nodes
associated with hangers
and cans function just
like connecting nodes
with restraints.

Connecting node
displacements are
incorporated in the
hanger design algorithm.

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8.10 Hanger Design with Support Thermal Movement

The hanger at node 9 is

supported from a
structural steel extension
off of a large vertical
vessel. The vessel at the
point where the hanger is
attached grows thermally
in the plus Y
direction approximately
3.5 in.

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8.11 Hanger Between Two Pipes

Node on the pipe

passing overhead

Rigid element

The directive Connect Geometry through CNodes must be turned off

in the
Configuration Setup to avoid plot and geometry errors.
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8.12 Hanger Design with Anchors in the Vicinity

the anchor at 5 is freed in the Y-direction,

the anchor at 105 is freed in all directions.

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8.13 Hanger Design with User-Specified Operating Load

In this configuration, freeing the anchors at 5 and 60 didn’t help the thermal case nozzle loads.
It was postulated that, due to the stiffness of the overhead branches, the hanger calculated hot
load was not sufficient. The calculated hot load was 2376 lb. A new hot load of 4500 lb. is tried
here.

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8.14 Spring Can Models with “Bottom-Out” and “Lift-Off”

Capability

Grinnell, fig.B268, size 10 : Bottom out :

• theoretical cold load: 1023 lb.
Max.Table Load  Installed Load 1690  1023
• spring rate : 260 lb./in. Spring rate

260
 2.565 in

• smallest load : 910 lb.

Lift-off :
• largest load : 1690 lb. Installed Load  Min.Table Load 1023  910
  0.4346 in
Spring rate 260

Value for the gaps

• g1 = 0.4346
• g2 = 0.4346 + 9.1E-6 Min. Table Load : 910 = 9.1E-6 in
• g3 = 2.5650
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Example: Input for Lift-off and Bottom-out Spring Can Model (continued)

The gap field in the restraints auxiliary data area rounds off values to 3 decimal
places for display only. Internally, CAESAR II stores values to 7 digits for
calculations. Therefore the gap corresponding to the -Y restraint in this example
was input as 0.4346 + 9.1e-06 and this value will be retained in memory for
calculations.
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8.15 Spring Hanger Model With Rods, “Bottom-

Out,” and “Lift-Off”
Grinnell, fig.B268, size 10 : Bottom out :
• theoretical cold load: 101 lb.
Max.Table Load  Installed Load 1300  1011
• spring rate : 200 lb./in. Spring rate

200
 1.445 in

• smallest load : 600 lb.

Lift-off :
• largest load : 1300 lb. Installed Load  Min.Table Load 1011  600
  2.055 in
Spring rate 260

Value for the gaps

• g1 = 0.4346
• g2 = 0.4346 + 9.1E-6 Min. Table Load : 600 = 6.0E-6 in
• g3 = 2.5650

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Example: Bottom-out and Lift-off Spring
Hanger Model with Rods

Dummy rigid modeled between nodes 10 and

15. Pipe connected to the rod through a +Y
restraint.
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8.16 Simple "Bottomed-Out" Spring

Gap : x (permitted travel)

Mu : F (initial load)

Note that no hanger should be entered at the same

position as a bottomed-out spring.

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8.17 Modeling Spring Cans with Friction

• A rigid element from the pipe center to the top of the can. Length
equals pipe radius + insulation thickness + shoe height + any
trunnion height.
• A Cnode to connect to the spring. Except for the vertical spring
stiffness, all other DOFs are rigidly connected.
• A rigid element representing the spring can height.

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