Civil Engineering-Structural Steel Design of Pipe Racks

Pipe racks are structures in petrochemical, chemical and power plants that are designed to support pipes, power cables and instrument cabletrays. The design requirements found in the US building codes are not clear on how they have to be applied to pipe racks. This course summarizes the US design code requirements and industry practice design criteria, design loads and other design consideration for pipe racks that are being followed in the Design offices.

In this course, your trainer takes you through designing process of pipe racks in the structural engineering software STAAD Pro. Modelling the pipe rack and applying loads can be a complex and confusing in beginning, but your trainer breaks it down into bite-sized pieces and teaches it in plain English. No prior experience in STAAD Pro and Steel structures is required to get the most out of this course.

You will start with the absolute basics i. e. calculating loads on the pipe racks.

Your trainer proceeds step by step through the process of modelling columns, beams, stringers, bracing,applying dead loads, product loads, thermal loads, wind loads. Next, he proceeds further on how to assign the properties to the structural steel members, assigning the releases and supports. Final stage shall be how to analyze and assign the design commands in STAAD Pro.