PSA 3.3 — Building the Load Cases: the Template, and What the Software Will Not Write for You
You are checking a colleague's analysis of the reboiler line from Lesson 3.2. Nine load cases, every one green, the report is signed. The load sets are there: W, T1 (250 °C), T2 (−10 °C), P1, WIN1. The case list reads: an operating case, a sustained case, an expansion case built as L1 − L2 , a couple of wind cases, a hydrotest case.
Before reading on: is the analysis wrong, and where?
It is wrong, and the error is not in any of the nine rows — it is the row that is not there. T2 was defined and…
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