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Just as the tightening of guitar strings changes the lateral stiffness and natural frequency, axial tension load in piping and structural frame elements increases lateral stiffness of those elements, and whereas compressive loads soften lateral stiffness. Legacy pipe stress programs totally ignore these real world P-delta effects on element stiffness. P-delta also accounts for loading about the deflected position of the piping which is ignored by legacy pipe stress programs.
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