I need a support to understand the thermal movement given in the hanger selection report for 2 AutoPIPE model. For the first one, it is about a model created by my colleague. During her holidays, I copied and pasted the .dat file without changing anything. I performed a hanger selection and I found a thermal movement of -20mm. But, my colleague found -5mm when she performed the selection. How to explain this discrepancy? Then, I am working on a model with -Z elevation of 1200mm so I expected that the thermal expansion to be 1200 mm * (410 degC - 21.1 degC) * 18.1*10^-6 mm/mm/degC = 8.5 mm but the thermal movement in the hanger selection report is -19.5 mm. I don't understand that result.
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