Pipe Stress Interface Administration

The PSI application allows the user to build stress groups configurations consisting of one or more branches and transfer the geometry and relevant attributes to and from the CAESAR II pipe stress package. A pipe is used to collect a list of branches to be stressed and after stressing, the same pipe holds a series of branches representing the load case deflections.

Pipe stress packages require more information than is traditionally stored in AVEVA E3D Design, and a powerful configuration capability is available to enable data to be extracted from different parts of the databases. For example, pipe wall thicknesses may be related to the specification component or to an element in the properties database. The configuration tool allows the user to set up how to get this data depending on the project.

If PSI cannot find an existing defaults file, a defaults file is created when PSI is first accessed. The default location for the psi-defaults file is:

%aveva_design_user%\Psi-defaults.xml.