Stress Intensification Factors (SIF)

[denisgomes]

Implement element based and connection based SIFs per a piping code of interest. Create a template which can be used for all different types of codes. The SIF for a reducer for example will apply to both end nodes of the reducer. Similarly the SIF for a bend will apply all three representative nodes of a bend, namely the near, mid and far nodes.

How to deal with fittings that also have a SIF, for example a reducing tee. Do we taken the max of the two or add them together? What does the code say to do?