You CAN choose to plan and perform your pipe support design like this:
- Let the piping engineer route the pipes
- Let the pipe stress engineer do the analysis for the stress critical pipes
- Let a pipe support designer (or the piping engineer) model, draw and issue the pipe supports
- Finished
BUT then you must ask:
Are the following requirements fulfilled?
- Weight saving design
- Fabrication friendly design
- Maintenance friendly design
- Passive fire protection requirements (PFP)
- Blast requirements
- Requirements for attachment to restricted or no-go areas
- Requirements for pipe supports inside tanks
- Requirements for pipe support attachment on floating installations
- Optimal material selections
- Requirements for attachment to mechanical equipment
- Pipe support framework calculation
- Calculation of pipe support details (shoes, trunnions, guides, stops etc.)
- In-dent calculation of pipe wall
- Isolation pad calculation
- Bracing of small bore branches (FIV/AIV)
- Special consideration for small bore piping
- Etc.
Pipe Support Verification is here to ensure that all of the above (and more) are taken care of.
Invest in pipe support and your pipe support design will be cost-effective and safe.