Projects
Pipe Stress Analysis 1 Image
Archon Engineering has the expertise and capability to perform piping stress analysis of process piping systems to a variety of codes, including Nuclear codes such as ASME III. The pipe stress analysis may include such load cases as dead weight, pressure, thermal, seismic and dynamic loadings on the piping systems. In addition to determining the stresses on the piping system support reactions can be determined. If this is an analysis of a new system, new supports may be designed to withstand the piping loads. If the analysis is for an existing system, existing supports can be evaluated to determine acceptability, or if support modification will be required.
Finite Element Analysis 1 Image
Archon Engineering helped a Naval Architect by providing detailed analysis for a removable mooring bitt for a large research vessel. In order to provide additional deck space while at sea, the bitt must be removed after leaving port. The Finite Element Analysis was used to evaluate the stresses in the mooring bitt, its bolting and the ship's structure to which the bitt was attached when loaded to design conditions. The analysis performed was a static linear stress analysis using a combination of plate and brick elements. Loads were input at design magnitudes in the various design directions.
Outfitting a Research Vessel 2 Images
An A frame type hoist was to be outfitted on the back of a research vessel. Archon Engineering provided the necessary stress analysis so that the ship's structure could be adequately reinforced to handle the worst case design loads the frame would impose on the ship. A static linear analysis was used to ensure the capacity of the A frame as well as to determine the necessary loads the ship would have to restrain.
Nuclear Power Plant's ECCS 1 Image
When a Nuclear Power Plant required a detailed flow model of their Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS), Archon Engineering provided the model using AFT's Fathom flow analysis software. The ECCS is comprised of numerous systems that must operate during a design basis event in order to safely shut down the reactor and maintain it in a safe shut down condition.
The final model contained more than 600 individual junctions (pumps, tanks, valves, etc.) and more than 700 pipes connecting these junctions. The complex model allows the owner to evaluate different flow scenarios and their effects on each of the individual systems and components.