CAESAR II 5.

00
Sneak Preview
See the Next Generation,
shipping early November 2005.
 What’s New?
• New Interface for Input
• New Technology
• New Reporting Capabilities
• Built-in Stress Isometrics
• New and Revised Codes
• New Databases
• New ESL…and more
 What’s New?
• New Interface for Input
• New Technology
• New Reporting Capabilities
• Built-in Stress Isometrics
• New and Revised Codes
• New Databases
• New ESL…and more
 New Input Interface
• New “look”
• Integrated graphics, spreadsheet, list
• Design-your-own spreadsheet with
“tearables”
• Graphic editing
• Walk-through
• Interactive error checking
• …and more!
CAESAR II 4.xx Interface
 CAESAR II 5.00 Interface

– New “look”
– Integrated graphics, spreadsheet, list
CAESAR II 5.00 Interface
 CAESAR II 5.00 Interface Toolbar
customization
drop-down

Thumbtack for input pane.

Clicking will scroll the input into
the frame, giving more space for
the plot.

Tear Away Indicator

(double-click
anywhere in the box
to activate)

Input pane caption bar. Double-

clicking will float the pane for
Aux Screen Selector (Not tearable, but left-
“CAESAR II Classic Mode”
clicking and dragging will alter the order. Order
change is not persistent)
 CAESAR II 5.00 Interface
These buttons…

…toggle these for each

selected item(use the
Selection Operator or right-
Navigation click on something on the plot
buttons –
First,
previous,
next, last Perform the “List/Block” operations

Duplicate last element

 CAESAR II 5.00 Interface

Individual lists
may be
opened,
closed, or
Drop down undocked in
arrow allows their own
selective windows.
opening or
closing of
individual lists
 CAESAR II 5.00 Interface

– Design-your-own spreadsheet with “tearables”

 CAESAR II 5.00 Interface

“Mini-spreadsheet”,
containing only key
data.

– Design-your-own spreadsheet with “tearables”

 CAESAR II 5.00 Interface

– Graphic editing
 CAESAR II 5.00 Interface

Select element and

choose operation…

– Graphic editing
 CAESAR II 5.00 Interface

– Graphic editing
 CAESAR II 5.00 Interface

– Graphic editing
 CAESAR II 5.00 Interface

– Graphic editing
 CAESAR II 5.00 Interface

Add restraints (or

any other
auxiliaries).

– Graphic editing
 CAESAR II 5.00 Interface

– Graphic editing
 CAESAR II 5.00 Interface

– Walk-through
 CAESAR II 5.00 Interface

– Interactive error checking

 Activate Error Checker Closes Error Check output (re-running will re-
open)

CAESAR II 5.00 Interface Summary from Error Check

(only updates when error
checking is complete)

Output from Error Check (selecting each line

with a node number will highlight that element
on the plot and switch the piping input screen
(or floating parts) to the appropriate page).
Errors are displayed in red, Warnings are green
and Notes are blue. Clicking on a column
header will sort based on the data in that
column.)

Input/Error selector (holding left button and dragging will detach windows)
– Interactive error checking
 CAESAR II 5.00 Interface

– Interactive error checking

 CAESAR II 5.00 Interface
• …and more:
– Duplicate Current Element command
– Additional isometric views
– Save graphics as JPG, TIF, BMP, HTML
– Access to Configuration and Load Case
Builder
– Selective opening and closing of Lists
– Complete customization of Toolbars
– Fewer “scratch” files
 What’s New?
• New Interface for Input
• New Technology
• New Reporting Capabilities
• Built-in Stress Isometrics
• New and Revised Codes
• New Databases
• New ESL…and more
 What’s New?
• New Interface for Input
• New Technology
• New Reporting Capabilities
• Built-in Stress Isometrics
• New and Revised Codes
• New Databases
• New ESL…and more
 New Technology
• Hot Elastic Modulus
• Consistent Mass Model
• Improved Specification of
Expansion Cycles
Hot Elastic Modulus
 Hot Elastic Modulus
Enter up to 9 different temperature
dependent moduli
Hot Elastic Modulus
Hot Elastic Modulus

Assign Moduli to individual load

cases in the Load Case Options
 Consistent Mass Model
• CAESAR II
4.XX only
supports Freq = 0.56 √ (EI/mL4)
Lumped Diam = 219.075 mm Thk = 8.1788 mm Ins = 50 mm
Length = 10000 mm; E = 2.0339E5 N/mm2 = 2.0339E8 kg-mm/sec2
I = ( π/64) * [(219.0754 – (219.075 – 2.0*8.1788)4) = 3.01723E7 mm4
Pipe = 0.00783 kg/cm3, Fluid = 0.001 kg/cm3; Ins = 0.0005 kg/cm3

Mass Model m = 0.095838 Kg/mm

Freqn = 0.56 * √[2.0339E8 * 3.01723E7 / (0.095838 * 10000 4)]

= 1.4157 Hz (1st mode)
(neglecting contribution of shear deflection)
 Consistent Mass Model
• CAESAR II 4.XX
only supports
Lumped Mass
Freq = 0.56 √ (EI/mL4)
Model Diam = 219.075 mm Thk = 8.1788 mm Ins = 50 mm
Length = 10000 mm; E = 2.0339E5 N/mm2 = 2.0339E8 kg-mm/sec2

• Note this is
I = ( π/64) * [(219.0754 – (219.075 – 2.0*8.1788)4) = 3.01723E7 mm4
Pipe = 0.00783 kg/cm3, Fluid = 0.001 kg/cm3; Ins = 0.0005 kg/cm3
m = 0.095838 Kg/mm

only a single Freqn = 0.56 * √[2.0339E8 * 3.01723E7 / (0.095838 * 10000 4)]

1.4157 Hz
= (1st mode)
(neglecting contribution of shear deflection)

element model
Theoretical frequency of first mode
 Consistent Mass Model
• CAESAR II 4.XX
only supports
Lumped Mass Freq = 0.56 √ (EI/mL4)
Model Diam = 219.075 mm Thk = 8.1788 mm Ins = 50 mm
Length = 10000 mm; E = 2.0339E5 N/mm2 = 2.0339E8 kg-mm/sec2
I = ( π/64) * [(219.0754 – (219.075 – 2.0*8.1788)4) = 3.01723E7 mm4
Pipe = 0.00783 kg/cm3, Fluid = 0.001 kg/cm3; Ins = 0.0005 kg/cm3

Note this is
m = 0.095838 Kg/mm

• Freqn = 0.56 * √[2.0339E8 * 3.01723E7 / (0.095838 * 10000 4)]

= 1.4157 Hz (1st mode)

only a single
(neglecting contribution of shear deflection)

element model
 Consistent Mass Model
• CAESAR II 4.XX
only supports
Lumped Mass Freq = 0.56 √ (EI/mL4)
Model Diam = 219.075 mm Thk = 8.1788 mm Ins = 50 mm
Length = 10000 mm; E = 2.0339E5 N/mm2 = 2.0339E8 kg-mm/sec2
I = ( π/64) * [(219.0754 – (219.075 – 2.0*8.1788)4) = 3.01723E7 mm4
Pipe = 0.00783 kg/cm3, Fluid = 0.001 kg/cm3; Ins = 0.0005 kg/cm3

Note this is
m = 0.095838 Kg/mm

• Lumped mass model has more

Freqn = 0.56 * √[2.0339E8 * 3.01723E7 / (0.095838 * 10000 4)]
than 30% error
= 1.4157 Hz (1st mode)

only a single
(neglecting contribution of shear deflection)

element model
 Consistent Mass Model
• CAESAR II 5.00
also supports
Consistent
Freq = 0.56 √ (EI/mL4)
Mass Model Diam = 219.075 mm Thk = 8.1788 mm Ins = 50 mm
Length = 10000 mm; E = 2.0339E5 N/mm2 = 2.0339E8 kg-mm/sec2

• Note this is only a

I = ( π/64) * [(219.0754 – (219.075 – 2.0*8.1788)4) = 3.01723E7 mm4
Pipe = 0.00783 kg/cm3, Fluid = 0.001 kg/cm3; Ins = 0.0005 kg/cm3
m = 0.095838 Kg/mm

single element 1.4157 Hz

Freqn = 0.56 * √[2.0339E8 * 3.01723E7 / (0.095838 * 10000 4)]
= (1st mode)
(neglecting contribution of shear deflection)

model
 Consistent Mass Model
• CAESAR II 5.00
also supports
Consistent Freq = 0.56 √ (EI/mL4)
Mass Model Diam = 219.075 mm Thk = 8.1788 mm Ins = 50 mm
Length = 10000 mm; E = 2.0339E5 N/mm2 = 2.0339E8 kg-mm/sec2
I = ( π/64) * [(219.0754 – (219.075 – 2.0*8.1788)4) = 3.01723E7 mm4
Pipe = 0.00783 kg/cm3, Fluid = 0.001 kg/cm3; Ins = 0.0005 kg/cm3

Note this is
m = 0.095838 Kg/mm

• Freqn = 0.56 * √[2.0339E8 * 3.01723E7 / (0.095838 * 10000 4)]

= 1.4157 Hz (1st mode)

only a single
(neglecting contribution of shear deflection)

element model
 Consistent Mass Model
• CAESAR II 5.00
also supports
Consistent Freq = 0.56 √ (EI/mL4)
Mass Model Diam = 219.075 mm Thk = 8.1788 mm Ins = 50 mm
Length = 10000 mm; E = 2.0339E5 N/mm2 = 2.0339E8 kg-mm/sec2
I = ( π/64) * [(219.0754 – (219.075 – 2.0*8.1788)4) = 3.01723E7 mm4
Pipe = 0.00783 kg/cm3, Fluid = 0.001 kg/cm3; Ins = 0.0005 kg/cm3

Note this is
m = 0.095838 Kg/mm

• Consistent
Freqn = 0.56 * √[2.0339E8 *mass model
3.01723E7 has* 10000
/ (0.095838 less4)]
= 1.4157 Hz (1st
than 0.5%mode)error

only a single
(neglecting contribution of shear deflection)

element model
 Specification of Expansion Cycles
• Remove ambiguity by specifying the
number of expansion cycles
associated with each load case
 Specification of Expansion Cycles
• Remove ambiguity by specifying the
number of expansion cycles
associated with each load case

CAESAR II doesn’t have to “guess”

which Cyclic Reduction Factor to Use
 What’s New?
• New Interface for Input
• New Technology
• New Reporting Capabilities
• Built-in Stress Isometrics
• New and Revised Codes
• New Databases
• New ESL…and more
 What’s New?
• New Interface for Input
• New Technology
• New Reporting Capabilities
• Built-in Stress Isometrics
• New and Revised Codes
• New Databases
• New ESL…and more
 Custom Report Templates
• Design your own custom report
types
 Custom Report Templates
• Design your own custom report
types
See your report…

…as you build it: data,

column widths, fonts,
colors…
 Build a “Book” or Reports
• Set up output prior to printing
 Build a “Book” or Reports
• Set up output prior to printing

Select a report…and then add it to the list

 What’s New?
• New Interface for Input
• New Technology
• New Reporting Capabilities
• Built-in Stress Isometrics
• New and Revised Codes
• New Databases
• New ESL…and more
 What’s New?
• New Interface for Input
• New Technology
• New Reporting Capabilities
• Built-in Stress Isometrics
• New and Revised Codes
• New Databases
• New ESL…and more
 Automatic Generation of Stress
Isometrics
• Isos developed using “de-facto
standard”
Isogen
 What’s New?
• New Interface for Input
• New Technology
• New Reporting Capabilities
• Built-in Stress Isometrics
• New and Revised Codes
• New Databases
• New ESL…and more
 What’s New?
• New Interface for Input
• New Technology
• New Reporting Capabilities
• Built-in Stress Isometrics
• New and Revised Codes
• New Databases
• New ESL…and more
 Piping Code Changes

– New codes – EN-13480, GPTC/192,

Z662 Ch 11
 Piping Code Changes

– MAJOR revisions – B31.3, B31.8

 Piping Code Changes

– “Minor” revisions – B31.1, B31.5, B31.11, ASME NC,

ASME ND, CODETI, TBK 5-6, API-610
 What’s New?
• New Interface for Input
• New Technology
• New Reporting Capabilities
• Built-in Stress Isometrics
• New and Revised Codes
• New Databases
• New ESL…and more
 What’s New?
• New Interface for Input
• New Technology
• New Reporting Capabilities
• Built-in Stress Isometrics
• New and Revised Codes
• New Databases
• New ESL…and more
 New Databases
Spring hangers
FRP/GRE
•
•
– Binder
– PiHASA
– Grinnell -> Anvil
– Ameron Bondstrand
• Structural steel – Conley
– Japanese
– Indian – Smith
 What’s New?
• New Interface for Input
• New Technology
• New Reporting Capabilities
• Built-in Stress Isometrics
• New and Revised Codes
• New Databases
• New ESL…and more
 What’s New?
• New Interface for Input
• New Technology
• New Reporting Capabilities
• Built-in Stress Isometrics
• New and Revised Codes
• New Databases
• New ESL…and more
Technology Changes Dictate New
ESLs

– Transition to be “as smooth as possible”

– Will require USB port
CAESAR II Version 5.00
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