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Xtrados is pleased to introduce Salad, the scriptable post processor for CAESAR II®. Now you can speed up a whole host of time consuming tasks such as performing supplementary calcs, creating stress summaries and lists.
What Can it Do For Me ? - Generate the local loads for an off-axis nozzle for all load cases at once.
- Generate an Excel spreadsheet summarising your calculation on one sheet, including maximum stresses, displacements, weight sag, nozzle loads, springs, load cases and major input data. This is a great way to do a quick 'sanity check' on your model !
- Acoustically induced vibration check of your piping system, accounting for multiple sources and decay with distance. These calculations can be very time consuming and fiddly, especially for multiple sources - now there is an easier way.
- API 610 check for all your load cases at once.
- Do a local stress check on all trunnions in your model in one go. If you have modelled the trunnions in your stress model, just tell Salad the restraint numbers and let it do the rest.
- Generate an API 617 compressor nozzle load summation for 10 load cases at a time.
- Generate a restraint summary in local co-ordinates. Great time saver for pipelines and skewed piping runs !
- Carry out a wall thickness calculation using the CAESAR II Material Database.
- Generate a list of structural supports using minimum load thresholds.
You can customise any Salad script to your own needs and preferences and save it as a User Template. What Else Could I Do With It ?  These are a few applications we can come up with, but don't feel limited to just these - - Carry out alternative code checks or interpretations
- Make a list of all springs on your project
- EI Guideline assessment for flow-induced vibration
- Vessel nozzle check for project with defined allowable nozzle loads
You can also use Salad for most calculations normally written in spreadsheet or math applications. Which brings us around to the..
English-like Scripting Language Don't struggle with Visual Basic macros or long nested 'If' statements, trying to make Excel do something its not best suited to. Salad offers you an easy to learn, English-like programming language, making it ideal for calcs or assessments that follow a flow-chart approach - such as a Fitness for Service assessment for example. Salad employs the revTalk™ language, which has been in use and continually developed for well over a decade. Xtrados has added in custom features and functions for Salad that let you conveniently extract the data from your CAESAR II analysis. Having said all of the above, if you're like us you've probably grown pretty attached to your spreadsheets, which is why we've designed Salad to.. Work with Excel  Let Salad cherry-pick the data from your stress analysis and pass it on to your existing or new spreadsheets for calculation. Or take advantage of Salad's scripting capabilities for the heavy lifting and just use Excel for final presentation. Maybe you want to program one of those big spreadsheets with loads of look-up tables. You could well end up with a tangled web of formulae, cell ranges that musn't be edited and hidden columns. Instead, why not store the data in Excel and use Salad to retrieve it and do all the processing. This will make future changes and debugging easier. How Does it Interact with CAESAR II ?
Salad works with XML data which you export from CAESAR II using the Data Export Wizard (See Tutorial 1). We're hopeful that Salad may earn its own slot on CAESAR II's 'External Interfaces' menu in time. If you find Salad useful or potentially useful, please let COADE know that you would like to get more streamlined data export. Please Note:
Xtrados is not affiliated with COADE in any way. COADE does not endorse, warranty, or support Xtrados products. Learn More: Feature Comparison and Pricing
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