PSA 4.2 — Support Hardware: Shoe, Guide, Line Stop, Trunnion, Dummy Leg
Commissioning walkdown on a hot 12″ product header. Thirty metres from the anchor, at the last support before the loop, the shoe is sitting on the very edge of the tier beam flange, about two-thirds of it hanging in air. It has not fallen off. It will, in about four more heat-up cycles, because it does not come all the way back.
The stress report for this line passed. Every node, every case, green.
Guess first: what did the analysis miss?
Nothing in the analysis. The model had a +Y restraint with friction at that node and it reported the…
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