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This specification outlines the recommended engineering procedure
for the design of concrete and steel pipe supports used in indus~
trial plants. The project Structural Engineering Specification
will take precedence over any of the following recommendations or
requirements.
The term "pipe support" describes a class of structures ranging
from the small single supports carrying ligut utility lines to the
main multideck pipeways loaded with air coolers.
Typically, six basic types of supports are used: strutted or
unstrutted pipeweys of steel or concrete and miscellaneous single
column supports of steel or concrete ar required throughout the
plant.
The construction material is generally established by fireproofing
requirements, procurement limitations or client preferences.
Strutted or unstrutted pipe supports are normally designed as
rigid frames in the transverse direction.
Unstrutted pipe supports are designed as vertical cantilever mem-
bers in the longitudinal direction. The height to the top of the
upper beam for unstrutted supports should be limited to 24'-0"
above grade.
Strutted pipe supports are normally used if either Electrical
requires continuous overhead conduit support, or Piping estimates
that piping take-off supports are required in one-third or wore of
the bays, or air coolers are mounted on the pipeway.
Strutted pipe supports may be designed as continuous longitudinal
rigid frames requiring fixed-ended struts, or the struts may be
pin-ended and transmit all longitudinal forces to vertical
bracing. Usually cast-in-place concrete pipe supports are
designed as longitudinal rigid frames because of their monolithic
construction. With steel and precast concrete construction, pin-
ended steel struts end vertical bracing is the preferred approach
LOADING
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Gravity Loads
2.1.1 Determine the average unit loading at each pipe deck by
using the Piping Material Specification issued for the
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2.1.2 Assume 12" and smaller steam, air, and vapor lines full
of water. Larger lines of this type are assumed full of
water only if they will be bydrotested. For example,
flare Lines are normally not hydrotested.
2.1.3' For determining pipe loading see attached equivalent
weight chart.
2.1.4 Load all empty future berths with the average unit load-
ing computed above.
2.1.5 Add a concentrated load at pipes which are at least two
sizes larger than the average on the support unless this
extra weight is compensated for by smaller adjacent pipes.
The concentrated load P = S(w - pd) where $= pipe sup~
port spacing, ft, w = large pipe vt, pli, p = ave unit
loading, psf, d= large pipe nominal diameter, ft.
2.1.6 Preliminary electrical information should be investigated
Wind
to determine the approximate weight and location of elec~
trical trays or conduits. A minimum weight of 20 psf
should be used for single level trays and 40 psf for
double level trays.
Special consideration should be given to unusual loads
such as large velves, unusual piping or electrical con-
figurations, ete.
Loads -
2.2.1
2.2.2
Fricts
Only wind loads transverse to the pipeway are considered.
Lateral load per foot on the pipes at each pipe deck,
W, = 0.8 pd (im). See Wind Chart for notation. Also
cBnsider wind loads on air coolers, longitudinal beams,
columns, ladders, and other attachments to the pipeway.
ion Loads
2.3.1
Friction forces caused by hot lines sliding across the
pipe support during start-up and shutdown are assumed
partially resisted by adjacent cold lines. Therefore, in
order to provide for a nominal unbalance of friction
forces acting on a pipe support, assume a resultant lon-
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2.3.2 On pipe supports for three lines or less, assume 2 fric
tion force equal to 20 percent of the total pipe weight,
since in such cases all pipes could be sliding in the
same direction at the sane time.
2.4 Anchor Forces
2.4.1
2.4.2
2.4.3
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2.4.5
2.4.6
Pipe anchors cause expansion movement to occur at a
desired location in a piping system. They may be direc~
tional anchors (DA) restricting movenest in one or more
directions while allowing movement in another, or they
nay be completely fixed anchors (A).
An anchor force has two components: (1) the force
required to make the piping flexibility work, called the
thermal component, and (2) the resultant of a series of
friction forces acting on the pipe as the pipe is sliding
slong the pipeway, called the friction component
To avoid excessive weak-axis bending on steel supports,
the anchors are normally spaced so that friction and
‘thermal forces are minimized. Anchors generally fall on
one support midway between process units. When balance
is not possible special pipe support design may be
required.
Occasionally all pipes are anchored on one braced pipe
support, This situtaiton typically occurs where piping
enters a Fluor-designed process unit from an adjacent
area designed by others.
It is essential that the structural engineer establish
good communications with the pipe stress engineer prior
to starting the design of any pipewsy. Anchor locations
and forces are needed as early as possible for pipe sup-
port design. Also, the structural engineer needs to be
immediately informed of any revisions to the anchor
forces.
On some projects the pipe support design must be under-
taken before firm anchor force information is available
from the piping stress group. For these situations, the
pipe supports are to be designed based on the following
assumed anchor forces, located at the two quarter points
of each transverse beam:
Beam Span < 15'-0
Beam Span > 15'-0
Anchor Force
Anchor Force
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2.4.6 . (Contiqued)
Assume the thermal component to be 30 percent and the
friction component to be 70 percent of the anchor force.
2.4.7 Téa steel pipe support has been issued for fabrication
and cannot resist a revised anchor force, and it is incon
venient to change the beam size because of mill order or
whatever, then the transverse beam should be reinforced
with a channel section--preferably in the shop.
2.4.8 Concrete beams will more readily resist anchor forces
because of large weak-axis bending resistance and are
normally not a problem.
2.4.9 Deflection of beams due to pipe anchor forces are nor-
mally partially restrained by friction from other lines
on the support. Therefore a calculation of beam deflec-
tion considering only the anchor forces will be very
conservative and generally should not be made. Normally,
the pipe stress engineer can use 1/4 inch as the nominal
anchor deflection for piping flexibility analysis. How-
ever, where the pipe stress engineer indicates that the
deflection of a particular anchor is critical, or where
multiple anchors are located on the same support, or where
there is an absence of other lines to provide restraint,
the deflection should be calculated and reviewed with
the pipe stress engineer for concurrence.
Barthguake Loads
Refer to DS-2, Earthquake Engineering, for load computation.
Friction forces will ordinarily exceed the longitudinal earth~
quake forces, so longitudinal earthquake forces are not usually
considered unless air coolers are involved, or unless high seismic
conditions exist. In this case gravity load + longitudinal seismic
loads should be considered
3.0 LOADING COMBINATIONS
3.1
Pipe supports are designed to resist the following Load
combinations:
a. Gravity load
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c. Gravity load + transverse wind loads + nonfriction component
of the anchor forces
4, Gravity load + earthquake loads + nonfriction component of
the anchor forces
€. Gravity load + friction load + anchor forces
3.2 It is assumed that neither friction nor the friction component of
the anchor forces occur at the same time as wind or earthquake
forces.
4,0 DESIGN-STRESSES
4a
4.2
4.3
Structural steel stresses may be increased one-third for all hor-
izontal load combinations giver in Paragraphs 3.1 through e above
involving either wind, earthquake or friction load.
When designing concrete according to the ACI 318 Code, the following
interpretation shall be given to Paragraph 9.2 of the Code te calcu-
late the required strength, U:
a. The weight of liquid in pipes shall be considered as dead load,
D.
b. The thermal component of an anchor force shall be considered
as live load, L.
c. Friction forces, including the friction component of anchor
forces, shall be considered as W in equations (9-2) and (9-3).
Pipe supports shall not be designed as # ductile moment resistant
space travil.
5.0 TRANSVERSE BEAMS
5a
3.2
The beam must be capable of supporting a 1000 pound erection load
at the midspan prior to placing say pipes. When designing steel
supports, assume the full length of the beam is laterally
unsupported when calculating the allowable bending stress for the
above condition. Assume one-third of the span is unsupported for
the operating condition
For torsional effects on transverse beams reference Addendum I,
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LONGITUDINAL BEAM-STRUTS
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
Design for 50 percent of the uniform loading used on one trans-
verse beam unless unusual loading is encountered. This 50 percent
loading will account for the usual electrical conduits and piping
take-offs. Use the assumptions in Paragraph 5.0 with the excep
tion of a 500 pound load at aidspan.
A single beam-strut will normally be adequate for a two-deck pipe-
way. It will not be necessary to double the load given im Para-
graph 6.1, since large numbers of upper and lower piping do not
normally exit in the same bay. A continuous metal insert is
provided at the top and may be provided at the bottom of a con-
crete strut to support piping takeoffs.
Longitudinal forces may be transmitted to the struts at each
column without considering column bending if the vertical dimen~
sion between a transverse beam and the strut in question does aot
exceed 3-6".
Struts in offsite pipeways are normally needed only to support
electrical conduit so they are aot designed to support the loading
given in Taragraph 6.1.
VERTICAL BRACING
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Vertical bracing is used to transmit the combination of anchor and
friction forces (or longitudinal earthquake load) from the struts
to the foundations. The strut forces are assumed to.be resisted
in accordance with relative brace rigidity rather than tributary
loading to the braces.
There shou'd be one vertically braced bay for about every 150'-0"
of pipeway Bracing may be offset into different bays on opposite
sides of ae viveway if necessary to avoid interference with
equipment.
It is suggestd that the first or second bay from an intercounect-
ing pipeway be established ducing plot layout as the braced bay
pevay. This location is normally out of the more
congested part of a unit. Also another bay near the other end of
the pipeway shall be established as 2 braced bay if the pipeway
length exceeds 150 feet.
STEEL COLUMNS
8.1
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assumed pinned, for the purpose of analysis only, at the pier top
ig the longitudinal direction, and fixed in the transverse
Girection.
8.2 Steel columns for unstrutted pipe supports are generally oriented
with their vebs peralle? to the pipeway and their bases are assuned
fixed at the pier top in eacb direction.
8.3. - The alternative columa orientation for uastrutted pipe supports
should be considered for the case of ¢ long tracsverse span With
low height.
$.0 FOUNDATIONS
.1 The stability ratio shall be checked using 8D percent of the
gravity load. This is te account for the fact that stability will
be critical vhen the least amount of liquid is present in the
systen.
9.2 For fixed base plate design and footing stiffness criteria, see
DS-48.
10.0 STEEL PIPE SUPPORTS
10.1
10.2
The Steel Pipe Support Tables provide beam and column combinations
for nine different types of steel pipe supports with various
combiaations of height and width for two different loading condi-
tione. These tables may be used for final design where the loads
and design conditions coincide with or closely approximate those
of the tables. Otherwise the use of the tables is iatended for:
10.2.2 Determining material quantities for estimates.
10.1.2 Selecting “starting” member sizes for analysis and
design of pipe supports.
10.3.3 Selecting "starting" member sizes for drafting in
situations where drafting must begin before the pipe
support bas been designed. The member sizes used must be
verified after the design is completed.
10.1.4 Piping layout and model meking.
The Steel Pipe Support Tables are based on the following design
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10.2.1 Pipe supports are spaced on 25'-0" centers.
10.2.2 Heights (H) for the steel pipe supports are from the top
of the concrete pier at 6 inches above HPFS.
10.2.3 Bents were analyzed with and without cagtilevers, and the
sizes shown io the tables for the beams and columas are
based on the most critical condition. Cantilever length
equals 0.251, with a maximum length of 6’-0".
10.2.4 Member sizes assumed for calculating vind loads were W18
for supporting air coolers and W10 for all others.
10.2.5 ‘Two sets of tables are presented representing two differ-
ent loading combinations as follows:
10.2.5.1 Set 4, i.e., Table IA, vas generated based upon
a unitorm load of 30 psf and a transverse wind
load of 30 gsi.
10.2.5.2 Set 8, i.e., Table 1B, was generated based upon
@ uniform load of 50 psf and a transverse wind
load of 30 psf.
10.2.6 The yield strength of the structural steel used in design
G,)" is equal to 36 ksi.
CONCRETE PIPE SUPPORTS
Concrete pipe supports shall preferably be precast at grade.
A range of precast concrete pipe supports covering the majority of
sizes and types used for typical process unit pipeways have been
predesigned. The configurations available are shown in Desiga
Guide 5.4.
It is intended that a standard design be selected that aeets or
exceeds the actual design conditions. This may result in a degree
of overdesiga in some cases. However, this is aot uneconomical as
the frame sizes for a particular span and type do aot vary signif
icantly and the differences in reinforceneat will have little
impact om cost.
‘The following information is available to the Project Structural
Engineer from the Department staff.W FLUOR
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Design data sheets providing menber sizes and reinforce-
meat for all the predesigned supports for each loading
contition.
Fou:dation loads and precast pipe support base place
design curves, Predesigned sockets are show in Design
‘e 5.7, pages SA and B, including load capacities.
Brukcup calculations for the analysis and design of the
pipe support frames and sockets
Standardized precast pipe supports have been designed for the
following loading criteria:
1.5.2
11.5.2
Gravity loads on each pipe deck: 40, 50, 60 and 70 psf
with frames spaced at 25 feet on centers along the
pipeway.
Lateral loads
Low Wind - Uniform Building Code - 25 psf zone
Higa Wind - Uniform Building Code - $0 psf zone
Low Earthquake - Uniform Building Code ~ Zone 2
Eigh Earthquake - Uniform Building Code - Zone 4
Longitudinal loads per Sample Computations in this
section.
Anchor forces: two 2,000 pound forces per beam applied
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