The best solution depends on the amount and length of slope, whether the supports are fixed or sliding, etc. Angled pipe shoes are supplied for small quantities, but they are generally avoided for larger quantities due to the variety of different sizes involved, and the extra cost. Roller supports can be a good solution.

A sway brace is a special type of variable effort restraint and is built around a standard or non-standard spring. It is used to restrain piping or equipment and is not intended to support.
The construction of the sway brace enables a pre-loaded spring which sustains both compression and extension displacement to provide a pre-determined restoring force.

Our support products are included in the following programmes:

• SupportModeler programme for 3D modelling of hangers supplied by Pelican Forge, which is owned by Intergraph Corporation.

Spring Selector is a C++ stand-alone programme that is used to select variable and constant effort supports.

In the centre of the dialogue box all possible spring selections are shown for the load and movement selected. If you would prefer to choose one of the other spring sizes shown, you can select it by clicking on it.

Neither shape offers any great benefit, but a square, rather than circular, shape can be more economic as there is less scrap when cutting from a square sheet.

People around the world use pipe supports and restraints; in fact they spend somewhere in the region of £150million on ‘engineered supports’ each year.

Details of allowable load for hydrostatic test are as follows:
For constant effort supports: 2 x support load.
For variable effort supports: 2 x maximum load for the spring.

Both grade 12 and grade 22 materials are suitable for use up to 649 °C (1200 °F). Above approx. 510 °C the allowable stress for grade 22 material is higher than that for grade 12 material, so when designing a clamp for 546 °C the material section size will be heavier if it is designed using grade 12 material than if it is designed using grade 22 material.